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Samsung Phones: Embedded With Israeli Spyware

Collecting biometric info, IP addresses, and fingerprints without consent.

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Ásjárstjórn (AS)
Nov 17, 2025
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Social Media Exchange (SMEX), a nonprofit digital human rights organisation focusing on the West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region, has warned people living in these regions that an effective spyware app developed by an Israeli firm is quietly embedded in Samsung smartphones across the region and poses a serious surveillance threat.

SMEX has written public…

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