Experts Say To Delete These 5 Apps From Your Device—They’re Sharing Your Personal Information With A Third Party

If you’re trying to keep apps out of your data — or, at the very least — prevent them from selling your data to third party sources, you’re in for a wild ride. More than 50 percent of apps have been found to engage in some sort of data sharing with third parties in an effort to turn a profit. You may not even be aware they’re doing it in some cases — or you may have given them permission without realizing it.

When you find out an app is selling your data, it can feel like an invasion of privacy and personal space. But it’s far more common than many of us realize. Here’s the deal: you can take more control over the apps that you allow to do this by deleting a few of the worst offenders.

Start with these five apps that have been known to share your personal information with a third party.

You may want to sit for this one. Instagram has been found to share 79 percent of the data that it collects about you, making it one of the absolute worst offenders. When you think about it though, you are giving IG access to so much information, including your location, the products that you use, your personal spending habits, even where you like to travel and info about your pets and the people in your life. As the saying goes, when an app is free, you become the product — Instagram is no exception.

Yet another Meta app that turns profits using your data, Facebook collects your contact information, location, info about your likes and dislikes, and so on. Is it any wonder that it uses this information to sell to advertisers? This is one app you expect to hear about, as it has been in the news for this practice for years now.