According to pCloud, Instagram is the app that collects the most data from users. The app shares 79% of this data with third parties. It also uses 86% of user data to sell products to users from Facebook groups and "serve" them relevant ads on behalf of others. The social giant's application is then second in order. The company's findings relate to apps available on the App Store.
On the contrary, the most secure applications in this regard are Signal, Netflix, a phenomenon of recent months Clubhouse, Skype, Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom, which do not collect any data about users. Apps like BIGO, LIVE or Likke, which collect only 2% of personal data, are also very safe applications from this point of view.
Facebook shares 56% of user data with third parties and, like Instagram, collects 86% of personal data for its own benefit. The data it shares with third parties includes everything from purchase information, personal data and internet browsing history. “No wonder there's so much promoted content in your reader. It's troubling that Instagram, with more than a billion monthly active users, is a hub for sharing so much data on unwitting users," pCloud said in a blog post.
The third most user-invasive app is Uber Eats, which handles 50 percent of personal data, followed by Trainline with 42 percent and eBay rounding out the top five with 40 percent. Perhaps surprisingly for some, Amazon's shopping app, which collects just 57% of user data, ranks low at 14th.
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