An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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    4 days ago

    The app’s privacy settings claim that users can disable this data collection by turning off “AppCloud” in the app list.

    They don’t just “claim” that - that’s how Android works lol.

    So in short the whole article could have just been “disable this app and you don’t have to worry about it”. Doesn’t have as much of a tinfoil ring to it I guess?

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      3 days ago

      Because Israel has shown itself to be trustworthy when it comes to software /s

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            3 days ago

            You think Android lets apps override their app disabling feature? You should report that to Google, they’d be shocked to hear it.

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              2 days ago

              Yes. It’s not the first time it’s been done either. Then there’s the loopholes as well, like Meta was doing recently.

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                  17 hours ago

                  Sure, you tell yourself that buddy. Israel is happy for you to believe it.

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                    9 hours ago

                    Go tell Google, they’ll pay you millions in big bounties for how Israel is doing this. Unless of course you have zero evidence that app developers can do this in Android……

                    Yeh thought so.