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Twelve to fifteen U.S. jurisdictions already let residents store state IDs or mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) in smartphone wallets or state apps for some official uses, and at least 14 states are acc...
Claims that iPhones have been “banned” because of Israeli spyware or that Israeli spyware is embedded on all phones are mixed with well-documented legal and technical fights between Apple and Israeli ...
ADB can remove many nonessential Samsung and carrier apps for the current user without rooting by using commands such as pm uninstall --user 0, and several community-maintained “safe to remove” lists ...
Samsung’s footprint in Israel combines long‑standing corporate R&D and acquisitions dating to the late 1990s and 2007 with a separate venture‑investment arm, Samsung Next, that invested heavily in Isr...
A small set of Samsung system packages are repeatedly flagged by developers and users as tied to One UI’s Safety and Emergency features: the Contacts app package (com.samsung.android.app.contacts), Sa...
Samsung’s AppCloud can often be disabled from a phone’s Apps settings, but multiple reports and experts say it is difficult or impossible to fully uninstall without advanced tools (ADB/root) and that ...
Google promises up to seven years of Android and security updates for the Pixel 10 family, putting official support through about 2032 for devices launched in 2025 (Android Central; GadgetHacks) . Sam...
USPS passport acceptance requires two separate payments: the U.S. Department of State application fee and a facility “acceptance” or execution fee collected by the acceptance facility; accepted instru...
At least a group of U.S. jurisdictions already issue or support mobile/digital driver’s licenses — commonly cited leaders include Maryland, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, Vermont and ...
AppCloud is a pre‑installed Samsung component that delivers app recommendations and a virtualized app platform on some Galaxy devices, and the basic product functions — app delivery, recommendations a...
Samsung has formed multiple, documented ties to Israeli companies and the local ecosystem: a 2023 partnership with Avnet ASIC Israel on ASIC design and manufacturing services (Samsung press release) a...
A reliable way to enumerate package names on a Samsung device is to use ADB’s package manager commands (pm or cmd package) from an attached computer to list packages and then, if needed, resolve human...
The Pixel 10 is a newer 2025 flagship with Google’s Tensor G5, Android 16 and advanced AI features; Samsung’s Galaxy S23 is a 2023 phone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (or regional variants) and One UI based...
Claims that Israel installed “unremovable” spyware or hardware chips in Foxconn-made phones rest on two distinct kinds of reporting in the public record: (A) forensic research showing malware signed w...
You can often recover texts from a lost Android if you have a backup (Google Drive, Samsung Cloud, or a third‑party backup app); without a backup, recovery is possible but uncertain and usually requir...
Enrollment, revocation and transfer of state digital ID credentials is handled by state DMVs and mobile wallet platforms: citizens typically enroll by scanning their physical credential and taking a s...
Regulatory rights to delete cloud- or app-collected data vary sharply: EU GDPR guarantees broad deletion ("right to erasure") and strict consent rules that can apply to any company processing EU resid...
There is little in the provided reporting that gives raw, comparable microphone measurements (frequency response curves, signal‑to‑noise ratio numbers) for iPhone, Samsung, and Google flagships; most ...
Samsung has faced fresh scrutiny in November 2025 over a pre‑installed service called AppCloud that appears on many budget Galaxy A/M/F phones and—according to reporting and advocacy groups—can’t easi...
Forensic experts authenticate viral audio by combining file-level forensics, signal-analysis techniques and contextual cross-checks to detect edits, device origins or synthetic generation . Techniques...