Samsung has been accused of shipping budget Galaxy A and M series smartphones with pre-installed spyware that users can't easily remove.
  • dukemirage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    26 天前

    I guess many foreign powers are interested in mass surveillance of unstable regions and low budget phones are a good way to do it. People there need phones and don’t have many options, or don’t care because there are worse problems.

      • dukemirage@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        26 天前

        Samsung has been accused of shipping budget Galaxy A and M series smartphones with pre-installed spyware that users can’t easily remove.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          26 天前

          Read the rest of the article.

          They’re talking about “affordable Samsung models”.

          “Budget” for a Samsung, not “budget” for a smartphone on that region and definitelly not “low budged”.

          Want to check what “low budged” means for a smartphone in unstable (read: poor) regions, go to to AliExpress and search for “cheap smartphone”.