The services that companies offer almost always require you to give certain permissions. For example, in order to use the navigation service provided by Google Maps, you need to allow that application to know your location. Other similar applications also ask us for certain permissions for their purposes. And we give permission to access that service immediately, regardless of what they are.
So what exactly is the information we provide to these applications without looking at the details? As a matter of fact, there are permissions that can make you think for a moment in indispensable applications of our daily life. Now, with the help of the infographic compiled by Clario, let’s take a look at which application is holding which data.
Google’s business-oriented apps, namely Google Docs, Sheets, and Gmail, are among the least data-collecting: Here’s the data they collect
- E- mail
- Name surname
- Device used
- Contacts
- Languages used
Considering all categories, these apps collects only 12.82 of personal data.
One of the indispensables of the business and school world with the pandemic, Zoom collects 20.51 percent of personal data:
- Name surname
- Age
- Device used
- Visual data taken to scan objects, faces and background on the screen
- Guide
- Languages used
Zoom, which has made its name known to a wide audience in recent years, collects certain visual data. Data for this area ensures good performance when filters are to be applied.
WhatsApp has lost a large number of users, especially in the area of our country, raising great privacy concerns in the past. The data it currently collects is as follows:
- Name surname
- Simmediate location
- Phone number
- Device type
- Contacts
- Photos in the gallery
- Languages used
For WhatsApp, which collected 20.51 percent, this number may have aroused suspicion in you or it may have come to your attention less. But let’s say that we are not even in the middle of our list that goes from small to large.
Would you think that this much data would be collected on YouTube?
- Name surname
- Age
- Marital status
- Phone number
- Home number
- Device type
- Hobbies
- Interests
- Languages used
Frankly, it is quite unexpected that YouTube collects more data than WhatsApp. But the important thing to remember here is to know that the quality of the data is valuable, not the quantity. Finally, the platform collects 23.08 percent of the total data.
Google Maps, “What’s the matter?” wants to access data you will say:
- Name surname
- Device type
- Current employers
- Hobbies
- Image data
- Voice recognition
- Gallery access
Image data in Google Maps makes the environment more prompted to recognize accurately. Other permissions, on the other hand, seem to serve the main purpose of the service. The data collected by Maps is 23.08 percent of the total.
How can Netflix, which we watch TV series or movies and go out with, collect more data than we have counted so far?
- Name surname
- Age
- Home address
- Mobile phone number
- Home phone number
- Device type
- Interests
- Bank account information
- Voice recognition
- Languages used
Netflix, which collects 25.64 percent of the total data, has to request some of this information from the users during the registration step. It is not hard to imagine that others are used in areas such as suggesting user-specific content.
Twitter collects more data than Netflix, as we can imagine. But its main competitor can’t even beat Facebook:
- Name (surname)
- Age
- Gender
- Instant location
- Device type
- Friend information on social networks
- Visual face recognition
- Visual environment recognition
- Directory
- Voice recognition
- Access to the gallery
- Languages used
When you see so many articles, Twitter is very serious. You can think of it as storing large amounts of data. Although this is partially true according to the nature of the data, these items cover 33.33% of the total data.
Who would have guessed? Spotify collects a lot of data from Twitter:
- Name surname
- Age
- Gender
- Home address
- Phone number
- Home phone number
- Device type
- Interests
- Bank account information
- Information about friends, hobbies and interests on social media
Collecting 35.90 percent of the total data, Spotify uses this data mostly to recommend new songs according to their interests. . Apart from this, we also know that the application provides a summary of what they listen to each year, to each user.
Both the quality and quantity of data TikTok wants to collect are at a higher level than others:
- Name Surname
- Age
- Phone number
- Device type
- Hobbies
- Interests
- Bank account information
- Friends, hobbies and interests in social media accounts
- Face recognition
- Environment recognition
- Object recognition
- Directory
- Voice recognition
- Access to the gallery
- Language used
TikTok, which has access to 46.15 percent of the total data, especially with the permissions it wants to recognize objects, sounds and people was causing concern. But let’s not forget that the application needs to access these parts in order to continue its service in the camera center.
“What information can Uber, which we use only for transportation, get from us?”
- Name surname
- Age
- Gender
- Current location
- Home address
- Working status
- Job done
- Phone number
- Home phone number
- Device type
- Hobbies
- Interests
- Current employer
- Past employers
- Friends, hobbies and interests on social media
- Face recognition
- Directory
- Access to gallery
- Language used
Data that Uber requests permission to access, 56.41 percent of the total forms the lair. The company, which was the target of criticism due to these permissions it previously requested, said that these permissions are necessary for the application to work in its most efficient state.
We even need to specify if we have a pet when we come to Tinder:
- Name surname
- Age
- Gender
- Sexual orientation
- Marital status
- Momentary location
- Working status
- Occupation
- Pet information
- Phone number
- Device type
- Hobbies
- Interests
- Height
- Weight
- Bank information
- Friends, hobbies and interests on social media
- Face recognition
- Environment recognition
- Object recognition
- Directory
- Voice recognition
- Gallery access
- Language used
Tin der is a platform that matches users with the data available to it. For this reason, the more data it has, the more accurate matches it can make. Still, his desire to collect 61.54 percent of all data does not make you think for a moment.
What do we have left? The data Instagram collects is 69.23 percent of all data:
- First name
- Age
- Sexual orientation
- Momentary location
- Home address
- Working status
- Occupation
- Pet information
- Phone number
- Device type
- Hobbies
- Interests
- Height
- Weight
- Current employers
- Past employers
- Friends, hobbies and interests on social media
- Face recognition
- Environment recognition
- Object recognition
- Directory
- Voice recognition
- Access to gallery
- Language used
Popular social media platform Instagram, tu m wants to collect almost 70 percent of the information. In the application, we can look for the logic of so many permissions in that direction, as there are separate processes in the story section, in the main flow section, and in the explore section in different directions.
If it’s missing, we complete it, or it completes us: Facebook requests almost 80 percent of personal data
- Name surname
- Age
- Sexual orientation
- Marital status
- Race
- Faith
- Immediate location
- Home address
- Working status
- Occupation
- Pet information
- Phone number
- Home phone number
- Device type
- Hobbies
- Interests
- Relatives
- Current employers
- Past employers
- Friends, hobbies and interests in social media
- Face recognition
- Environment recognition
- Object recognition
- Contacts (
- Voice recognition
- Access to the gallery
- Language used
Facebook wants to know 79.49 percent of all personal data to fulfill its every function . What is left out at this point is the user’s height, weight, mother’s maiden name, bank information, salary, country of birth, allergies and lifestyle information.
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