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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>A new study by Home Security Heroes has revealed that Threads, Instagram and other Meta platforms are the worst social media platforms for protecting user privacy.<\/p>\n

The study also showed that Meta platforms, particularly Thread, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger collect 86% user data for advertising and marketing purposes, which is way more than any other social media platform does.<\/p>\n

The researchers assessed how social media apps protect their user privacy based on the following: Data collection \u2013 How apps collect data: They used the 14 privacy labels on the App Store to figure out which social media apps tracked the most personal information about their users for marketing reasons.<\/p>\n

The number of privacy labels an app has out of 14 determines how much personal information it monitors. User control \u2013 How apps let users control their data: They looked into the privacy and security settings of each app and counted how many features it has. Security \u2013 How secure is the app: How many security methods are these apps using?: For example, SMS authentication, two-factor identification (2FA).<\/p>\n

User experience \u2013 How easy is it for users to set their privacy settings: How many steps do users need to take to get to the page where they can change their privacy settings? For example, with Twitter, users go through 4 steps: Click More icon \u2192 Settings and Support \u2192 Settings and Privacy \u2192 Privacy and Safety.<\/p>\n

A score out of 10 is then given to each metric, and the total score is based on the formula. Per the results, Threads and Instagram scored a full 10, while, Facebook and Messenger scored 9.2 each. Only VK came between them in the top five with a 9.5 score.<\/p>\n

The report shows that all of Meta Platforms\u2019 app collect a minimum of 86% of user data for advertising and marketing purposes, which is way higher than the second place app, X (Twitter), which collects 57% of users\u2019 data for same purposes.<\/p>\n

Cost to Users Using Morning Consult\u2019s poll, the research were able to find out how much users would charge a company for access to each piece of information the app collects. Then, they added up how much this data costs to find out how much the app costs each user.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we think of the personal information apps collect about us as the price we have to pay to use them, users pay $15,600, or $3900 per app, to use Meta\u2019s social media apps, while LinkedIn and Flixster also cost users more than $3000 to use,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

The researchers also found that 68% of social media apps track their users\u2019 data for advertising and marketing, 62% track users\u2019 personal data for their own marketing benefits, and 43% of apps share users\u2019 data with third parties.<\/p>\n

Safest Platforms The study also determined the safest social media platforms in terms of privacy protection Flickr came up tops complete zero user data collection.<\/p>\n

Other platforms that collect zero user data are Nexopa, Clubhouse, which is fast becoming popular in Ghana, and Likee, another popular platform in Ghana.<\/p>\n

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