Study finds Meta apps far more invasive than others

Meta apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, are the most invasive when it comes to mining and sharing its users’ personal data, according to a new study.

The Money Mongers looked at the top 100 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store, focusing on two categories: third-party advertising, and the developer’s own advertising and marketing.

Under these categories are 14 different data points, such as purchases, locations, contact info, user content, health and fitness, and financial info. The apps were scored, based on how many data points they were taking under each category, with the average of two data categories used to create a single percentage score.