Many people who understand the importance of digital security and privacy have been longing for mobile devices that don’t leak their data to large corporations and advertisers. As it happens, during the second half of 2019, two very different privacy-focused mobile Read >
Tag: Android
Finally, it is possible to purchase a good smartphone that doesn’t collect our private data
General awareness about risks in automatic collection of individuals’ private data is growing quickly. Meanwhile, companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft invent new ways to collect their customers’ data behind the scenes. For an ordinary person, probably the biggest data collector Read >
Popular travel booking apps tell Facebook where, when and how you travel
A few friends have asked me is it possible that Facebook is listening to their phone calls or intercepting their online communications because it mysteriously seems to know all their travel plans. Well, I didn’t take it seriously until now. A Read >
All right, there is one extremely useful thing Google does when it sucks our private data
A real life experience proved how software that is constantly spying on mobile phone users has its benefits, too. In a catastrophic situation where you can’t retrieve any data from an old Android phone – and you don’t have backup files Read >
Welcome /e/, the world needs a mobile operating system that lets us manage our own data
Online privacy and security-concerned people have always worried about operating systems that track what users do on their computers and mobile devices. Tracking and selling the data to other parties is not only questionable but also a dangerous practice that one Read >