Most & Least data-hungry apps!
There are apps that showcase themselves as "privacy-focused" but ends up collecting tons of data! Check out the visualization to learn which are the most and least data-hungry apps across categories!
Source: Surfshark.com
Insights
Social media and food delivery apps, on average, gather the most personal information from users.
Browsers and image editing apps collect significantly less personal data compared to social media and food delivery apps.
Three of the most data-intensive apps, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, are all owned by the same company: Meta (formerly Facebook).
Apps that prioritize user privacy tend to collect the least amount of personal data.
Generally speaking, the most popular apps (as measured by download numbers) tend to gather a wider variety of personal data from their users.