I may have been a little hard on MucroSoft. This just in about Apple:
Top Apple Mac App Secretly Sends Your Browser History to China, Researcher Finds -- published on Gizmodo
It seems to have been popular ad-blocking software. It also sent a list of your apps and such back to China.
Just about every App on FB required you to give up your contact list in order to get it-Deal Breaker!- I never used one APP on FB due to this but i think i was the only one. No one else could resist selling you down the river so they could buy 7 fake goats and a half acre of cyber land.