GrapheneOSBrazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.
It doesn't stop there. It would require keeping data for auditing and providing a token for connecting age verification checks by apps and websites to the data. The law is a privacy disaster and exposes minors to being exploited by leaking their age bracket to apps and websites.
GrapheneOS has no team members or operations in Brazil. São Paulo in Brazil is by far the biggest network hub within South America. Miami is also a major network hub for South America and is currently where our update server is for South America since it's dramatically cheaper.
We have a tiny VPS in São Paulo for our ns1 anycast DNS and a second for our website/network services. It probably isn't an issue and those can be removed if necessary. Santiago could be added for both instead but wouldn't work very well as a replacement for having São Paulo.
There aren't yet devices supporting GrapheneOS directly sold in South America. Brazil in particular has unusually high import duties/taxes which add up to around 100%. This has resulted in us not having a lot of users there but our Motorola partnership will start changing this.
Richard ⬜🟩⬛@GrapheneOS Really? Will you be selling out-of-the-box grapheneOS devices in Brazil?
That's where i live!
@richardisaguyyyy We want to do that but the age verification law is going to prevent devices being sold with GrapheneOS in Brazil. It will be very easy to install it on future Motorola devices sold in Brazil via our web installer though. It's much easier and safer than doing something like installing Windows on a desktop.
@GrapheneOS That's so awesome! May i ask, will you support existing motorola devices that are rootable as well? For instance i own a moto edge 20
Sandelinos@richardisaguyyyy @GrapheneOS No. Existing Motorola devices don't fulfill Graphene's hardware requirements
Hani@GrapheneOS @richardisaguyyyy is it a done deal that the new OEM will be Motorola?
@cornflakes4dinner @richardisaguyyyy Motorola officially has a long term partnership with us. They're actively working on GrapheneOS support and meeting all of our requirements. The aim is to have support on devices launched in 2027 and things are proceeding towards it. They also want to use our code within their OS to improve it but that's a separate thing from GrapheneOS and interests their business users rather than being what our users are interested in.
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
