Samsung is actually a company that was specifically called out for bypassing permissions that you denied them. They would dig through the logs of other applica

Samsung is actually a company that was specifically called out for bypassing permissions that you denied them. They would dig through the logs of other applications on the filesystem, look through EXIF tags on the files on your camera roll, etc in order to scrape information that they'd send back to Samsung to sell. https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/facebook-scraping-call-message-logs-android-app-3433288 https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/facebook-scraping-call-m... https://www.xda-developers.com/android-permissions-bypass-play-store-apps/ https://www.xda-developers.com/android-permissions-bypass-pl... These spyware kits are hardcoded into the first-party apps on Samsung phones that you cannot remove without replacing it with a custom ROM. Samsung is also the point of the spear on pushing advertising into their television sets and scraping your viewing for marketing purposes. Buying Samsung products is as bad as using Google or Facebook products in terms of your privacy.