What are the most privacy respecting smartphones to buy, I am also looking for the one which respects your privacy the most. So far going to privacy communities esp on reddit, I often see Google Pixel + GrapheneOS being recommended.

But the thing is I don’t really trust Google with privacy, as we have seen they are last one to respect privacy. What if Google has some backdoor in the hardware that cannot be changed? And the problem with the more privacy respecting OSes for mobiles like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS etc are that they are only supported for Google pixel phones.

So I am really confused here.

  • murky
    3·
    3 years ago

    LineageOS also supports some more obscure phones if you don’t like Google pixel phones or if you’re on a tight budget

    • southerntofu
      2·
      3 years ago

      LineageOS from what i heard stopped supporting different passphrases for partition decryption and session unlocking. Having two separate passphrases was very useful because unlocking your screen happens much more often and is therefore much more likely to be compromised (eg. recorded by CCTV).

      Still, much respect for LineageOS, but we should still consider that most smartphones (except for Librem 5 and Pinephone) don’t care for hardware architecture and firmware reach, rendering the entire phone insecure.

      • M500
        2·
        3 years ago

        This article is not really relevant. It points out that when the os is replaced by a privacy focused os like e-os then no data is sent back.

      • M500
        1·
        3 years ago

        This article is not really relevant. It points out that when the os is replaced by a privacy focused os like e-os then no data is sent back.