A month ago, in a case against Google, the US court stated that the company illegally dominates the playground, which disrupts the development of other players. To restore the fair competition, the court offered two options: First, Google can sell its web browser – Chrome. Second, Google may provide access to rival firms to its comprehensive search data, including its index and results. This can potentially enable competitors to develop more advanced search equipment. However, Google strongly opposes this idea, compared to handing over its most valuable property. The company’s legal team has warned that doing so leads to a serious risk, including a possible risk of users’ sensitive personal information. On the same note, a recent report found that Google is not really not lying when it says, “Sensitive personal information.” It cannot come as a surprise, according to a report by Surfshark, Google Chrome is the only web browser that collects financial data, such as payment options, card details and bank account information.

Google Chrome: Data-Hungry Browser

In a new report by Cyber ​​Security firm Surfshark, how much personal data to the world’s major web browsers has been collected, a spotlight on it stands out as the most aggressive Google Chrome. The report studied 10 chrome, dominating the global market with about 70 percent of the use, harvesting a wide range of individual information. This includes your phone address book, financial description, location data, browsing and search history, photos and videos, audio recording media files, and a wide intimacy of identifiers such as device ID, user ID and IP addresses.

The data collection of chrome especially relates that most of this information directly feeds in the suite of Google’s services – including searching, gmail, and maps – which are tightly integrated with browser. These services constantly collect user data, further fanfare and fanfare to the line between privacy infiltration.

Surfshark Chief Security Officer Tomas Stamulis commented on the findings: “It is often explained that browsers collect data to personalize and improve the user experience. If we rely on this explanation, it appears that the more the data you provide, the more smooth and seamless should be your browsing.

Despite the dominance of chrome, its use varies greatly in areas. According to the report, the United States and other rich countries such as the UK and South Korea – where the iPhone is more adopted – Apple’s safari browser enjoys a strong appearance. For example, in the US, Safari is 50 percent for mobile browsing, which pushes Chrome down to 43 percent. This regional tendency offers a small silver layer, as the safari ranks very low in terms of the amount of user data – it ranks fourth in the list of the top 10 most widely used browsers of Surfshark.

Finally, Surfshark’s report acts as a reminder on a time to review its browser permissions for users and keep in mind how much personal data they are sharing – often without realizing it.

What about others?

In a recent study of browser privacy by Surfshark, a clear difference has been revealed about how much individual data has been collected to various web browsers. At the top of the list for data collection is Google Chrome, which collects information from a shocking 20 different categories. In contrast, the remaining nine browsers collected data from an average of only six categories.

Coming in second place for data-hygness is Bing app, which draws information from 12 different data types. Meanwhile, the torch sits at the opposite end of the spectrum, the most privacy-conscious browser in the study. The users are designed to mold the identity and provides access to the dark web also to the web, the TOR collects almost no individual data.

Brave also stands out as an alternative to a secrecy-world. The browser, which marketers themselves when the user protects the oblivion, limits its data collection to only two categories: usage data and identifier. It is an engineer to reduce digital tracking while maintaining the necessary functionality.

Browser such as DuckDuckgo and Firefox sit somewhere in the middle. They clarify the most intrusion data practices by collecting minimum required data – such as the identityrs used for sessions tracking and basic diagnosis – user offer a proper balance between privacy and purposes.