"Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker"

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Unfortunately it seems this is hardly hot news.

Telemetry, Spyware, list of privacy threats on FP3 Android 9

There is already a thread on how to uninstall or deactivate most google apps (gapps) from the FP3 stock Android9. (Also relevant: How to live without Google on an FP3 ) Unfortunately the google apps are not the only preinstalled components on the FP3 that have undocumented telemetry capabilities and regularly or sporadically talk home. Some of these connections are rare (once a week, once a month, once after each reboot) so it becomes a community effort to itentify components that are …