Dating and social media services are the most data-hungry applications you could use – you may already know that. What you may not, however, is that most of these apps regularly collect details of your political and religious beliefs to, among other things, sell them to third parties.
This is the shocking finding coming from new research conducted by Incogni, a data removal service developed by Surfshark, one of the best VPN apps on the market. Researchers looked at the data collection practices of the top 100 free apps across 36 categories in the US and found that 74 collected these highly sensitive details. Among these, the vast majority are dating apps (47), followed by seven social media services and six medical applications.
