Our researchers found that Reddit, with a score of 8.9, represented the lowest privacy risk, followed by Snapchat (9.99) and Pinterest (10.49).
Facebook, with a score of 18.98, Facebook Messenger (16.51), and Instagram (15.84), were found to present the greatest risk to users’ privacy.
Instagram and Facebook were found to have the most problematic data collection and retention practices.
Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, YouTube, and Discord keep users’ data the longest after a successful account deletion request.
LinkedIn and X (Twitter) publicly display the most user data with the strictest “visibility” settings selected.
Facebook had the highest number of GDPR, CCPA, and similar regulatory violations, while LinkedIn suffered the greatest number of data breaches and mass data scrapes.