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EXPOSED: Samsung phones in West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware (www.thecanary.co)
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An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If I rooted my phone can I somehow remove them(maybe with adaway and canta)??
But tbh I will never buy a Samsung again.

Edit: I don't think you need root to remove it.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I am not a professional, but i would say you can probably remove the App, BUT with just removing the App it might still be somewhere on the phone on a deeper level that you cannot really see right away and is hard to trace.

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