Study reveales TIK TOK,Alibaba,Temu collect extensive user data in Amerika

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A new study by the data privacy firm Incogni, shared with Hackread.com, has revealed that a majority of the most-downloaded foreign apps in the US are still aggressively collecting and sharing user data.
The research focused on the ten most popular applications from outside the country and found that over half of them are owned by Chinese companies.
The study, published on August 26, 2025, shows just how dominant these apps have become. According to the findings, the apps studied have been downloaded an estimated 1 billion times in the US, and 755 million of those downloads are from Chinese-owned apps alone.
Incogni’s researchers found that Chinese apps are particularly “data-hungry.” On average, they collect 18 different types of data from each American user and share around six of those data types with other companies.
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