A STUDY conducted by cybersecurity company Surfshark revealed that ride-hailing and taxi apps collect extensive information about their users. According to the research, these apps, on average, collect 14 data points per user and 30 percent of them use this data for "third-party advertising." Surfshark's data sensitivity index, which shows what type of data ride-hailing apps collect, ranked widely used GrabTaxi, Yandex Go, and Uber as the most data-hungry carpooling apps in the world.

The index researched data collection practices of the 30 most known ride-hailing apps from the Apple Store and measured how much data the apps collect in three main pillars: 1) data that is not linked to a user's identity (such as app crash data); 2) data that could be linked to a user's identity (such as name); 3) data that could track users across apps and websites (such as user ID).

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