iOS apps only, analysis of 100 apps across 10 app categories
Supplementary notes
According to the source: "The App Store lists 32 unique data points that can be collected across 12 unique data point categories."
The source defines "data-hungry" apps:"if they collect more than the avg. data points and use the majority (>90%) of data to track the user, or the majority of collected data points are linked to user identity."
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Data collection among global most privacy demanding mobile iOS apps 2023, by type
As of May 2023, the mobile app version of popular *** used ** of the data points they collected to track their iOS users, as well as collecting ** data points connected to the user's identity. Facebook, which was identified as the most data-hungry app among all the mobile social media, used of its ** collected data points to track users. Dating app * collected ** data points collected to the users' identity, as well as **** data points to track users activity.
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