According to a new survey conducted in the US by WhistleOut, 85% of respondents believe that at least one technology company is currently spying on them. Most of them associate these concerns with Facebook (68%) and TikTok (53%).
Facebook and TikTok are followed by Google with 45 percent, Instagram (belonging to Facebook's "stable") with 43 percent, and the top five is rounded out by Amazon, which 38 percent of respondents are worried about.
The other five are Snapchat (37%), Twitter (35%), YouTube (34%), Apple (30%) and LinkedIn with twenty percent. Interestingly, only 15% of respondents believe that no technology company is spying on them.
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The majority of respondents believe that technology companies are going even further with surveillance – a full 80% believe that companies are listening in on their phone calls. Facebook (55%) and TikTok (40%) again appear on the first ranks in this direction. From this point of view, the least untrustworthy platform is LinkedIn, which only 14% of respondents suspect of wiretapping.
Despite the fact that respondents believe that these companies are tracking them, 57% of them are not sure what informacemi they collect actually do. While only 24% of those surveyed believe these companies spy on users to tailor advertising and content to them, two-thirds say they have seen or heard an ad or product on a big tech company's app or website after only hearing about the product they talked but never looked him up online.
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When respondents were asked what they do to protect their privacy from these apps, 40% said they either deleted or stopped using TikTok. 18% said they stopped using the Facebook app because of privacy concerns.
