Epicwin, an applications development company, has analyzed the privacy settings of 35 of the most popular gaming apps on the App Store to reveal an index of the most invasive apps to your personal data and privacy. (Note that Epicwin makes its own iPhone app: EpicWin, a streamlined to-do list with a roleplaying spin.)
Recently Apple updated their privacy policy giving more information about what personal information apps require from us, and how they use it. The folks at Epicwin says it’s all too easy to click “Accept” without actually reading the terms being accepted. Users might not realize that these games may share your location, purchase history, identifiers, and usage data with third parties.
For this study, Epicwin researched the most popular gaming apps from the official Apple App Store Awards 2021. The company also conducted a survey of 4,839 gamers from their mailing list to find out their favorite gaming apps.Combining these two resources they determined the 35 most popular games to be included in the research. Key findings from the report:
Pokémon GO collects 100% of the available personal data linked to your identity
Gaming apps that collect the most personal data linked to your identity
Gaming apps that share the most personal data with 3rd parties:
The most invasive gaming apps overall
A full list of key findings, results and charts can be found at https://www.epicwinapp.com/most-invasive-gaming-apps/
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