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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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[–] WreckingBANG@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.