Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.
The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.
Encryption apps aren’t enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.
The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.
We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.
The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.
Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.
#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust
How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?
This is why I’ve wanted a PDA for a while now. But nobody makes them anymore because everyone pivoted to making smartphones, so DIY would probably be one of the only options unless I want to buy used tech from I believe 2 decades ago.
You can get a Google Pixel, install GrapheneOS on it, then keep it in aeroplane mode.
What I was describing was more an actual PDA, with very low power needs while still being very useful, and being very easy to back up the entire OS and its data, maybe even with some sort of minimal linux distro.
However, I might actually flash a pixel with grapheneOS, since it does fulfill many of those needs, so I’ll consider it. Good suggestion.