Smartphones with Popular Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information

That is almost nothing compared with what Google and Facebook apps send back. And all games and apps. Even your clock app connects to Google. Every flashlight app is just a collector app.

The user has no way to disable anything. Some apps will be uninstalled but like Facebook it still has 3 more services running, so removing has zero effect.

You really need to connect the phone to a pc and remove with adb all that crap. And a local vpn app so you can control what connects to the internet or not.