I don’t thinks there’s any person who doesn’t know this information already, yet you keep seeing the same empty articles of “oh yes they collect your data using commercial apps”.. list all these apps to consumers, list the services too, list the companies that are selling them, so people will stop using them or at least limit its access. I know most social media are, but there are far more companies and apps that are willing to sell such data.
The companies handing your data over to the government are apple, google, microsoft, and every ISP, every social media platform, and every cell phone provider in the country. What now? You going to throw out every computer you own and never use the internet? When the problem exists in everything we use and depend on there is no avoiding it.