Those three apps are often installed by default in the most of android systems. They can be easily removed with adb. But what they do exactly? What type of data they collect and send online?
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I'm not sure about the first
But as much as I hate Samsung and Facebook for doing this, I don't think they actually do anything.
They're basics place holder apps with version number set to a low number, so when you update all apps from play store these gets 'updated' and installs the functional app.