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Data risk management company Incogni has found that half of every installed Google Chrome extension have a high to very high risk of collecting personal data, showing strong correlation to the number of permissions given.

Data risk management company Incogni has found that half of every installed Google Chrome extension has a high to very high risk of collecting personal data, showing a strong correlation to the number of permissions given.

When Incogni drilled down its findings to determine the risk impact of the permission given to extensions during installation, it found that 1 in 4 of them collect data. An interesting nugget is writing extensions, including Grammarly and Compose AI, tend to be the most data-hungry, with almost 80% of them catching at least one data point at a time.

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