A Shocking Report Shows Some Sites And Social Networks Are Spying On Their Users On A Large Scale.

Citing the Young Journalists Club, social media tracks your every move and collects a vast amount of users’ data without their permission, But some sites collect more information than others.

A new report shared by the English newspaper ” Dailymail ” reveals that the TikTok app is one of the most data-gathering sites, collecting more information than any other social media app or service, according to a study conducted by the Internet. Collects messaging.

The popular video-sharing app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has more than a billion active users worldwide, and TikTok has more than twice the average number of trackers in its source code.

The TikTok app bot secretly collects user data to adjust the algorithm that powers it. Meanwhile, it can collect information about a user’s Wi-Fi and SIM card, raising concerns about how that data is used.

TikTok and Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are among eight of the 22 largest companies collecting the most data. At the same time, Facebook is rated as one of the best non-spying companies, with 16th rank.

Using its Malcore software, Internet 2.0 gave each app a score based on the amount of personal information collected. TikTok scored 63.1, higher than Facebook’s rival VK, a Russian networking site.

After TikTok, VK scored 62.7 as Russia’s second largest internet company, with 13 bots and 28 “dangerous licenses” revealed in its source code.

The third most tracked application is Viber Messenger, which has more than a billion users and was found to have 11 trackers.

The Microsoft Teams application for group work calls had about four trackers and many permission requests, which received a score of 38 and ranked fourth in this list.

With about 400 million users worldwide, email service Outlook came in fifth with 35.9 and 7 followers, followed by Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and LinkedIn, which scored around 34. Gmail and WeChat are also at the end of this list.

The study’s findings come amid a security controversy over how social media companies use data collected.