@lauren This is a fact and it can be verified in each one of them by looking at their permissions access. Even contacts alone can give them more than they rightly should have any access to. Many have access to far far more on your phone though...

What bugs me is how many of these apps that *ABSOLUTELY DON'T NEED IT* demand location access. My phone service app back in the day even used to refuse to let me in because I refused and I had to use the site.