Data is shared with third parties by every two seconds.

Your data is shared with third parties by one Android app every two seconds.

Users’ data is share by one in two (55.2%) apps with outside parties. While free apps share on average seven times as many data points as commercial apps. This report  analysis from the data removal business Incognito, which examine the privacy and security procedures of the top 1000 apps. these are available through the Google Play Store. According to the survey, individuals actually pay for free apps with their data. Your data is shared with third parties by one Android app every two seconds.

Apps exchange an average of 5.72 data points in the “shopping” category, which is the worst in terms of data sharing. Social media applications also gather the most data (19.18 data points), despite their claims to only share an average of three data points. Research is still needed to determine whether social media apps are entirely transparent, according to Incogni.

Additionally, 4.9% of apps acknowledge not encrypting data in transit, leaving user data open to security attacks. A scant 0.8% report that their data has undergone an independent security review, and less than half claim that their data is encrypt in transit.

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Only 39% of Google Play apps really offer a means for a user to request data removal, and one in ten Google Play apps explicitly states that the personal data they gather cannot be remove.

According to Incognito, the fact that many apps share users’ location histories may be much more worrisome. While only 3.85% of apps disclose the specific location, 13.4% share the approximate location. The business claim that even programs brand as “safety and security tools” could occasionally divulge a user’s specific position.

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Data sharing exposes users to a variety of risks, including identity theft, stalking, and online harassment. According to Darius Belejevas, CEO of Incogni. Many Internet users may become targets of digital redlining. A  practice that is comparable to profiling.

 Methodology

When choosing which programs to install, consumers can now make better-informed decisions thanks to this information. Then, based on how many data points each app collects and shares, we analyze the information in the “data shared,” “data collect” and “security practices” sections to rank the apps from worst to best.

Source: itweb