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New podcast episode: Put some privacy in your smartphone! 📣 🎧

How can you use an Android smartphone while protecting your privacy? Who should you turn to for more privacy-friendly Android alternatives?
Can you install Linux on your phone?

With @fla from @Framasoft , we answer these questions!

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/smartphone-put-privacy-in-your-smartphone/

#podcast #opensource #privacy #eos #iodeOS #calyxos #postmarketos #fairphone #commown #murena #ubuntutouch #grapheneos

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GrapheneOS 1d ago

@projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft The claims made about GrapheneOS in this interview are extremely inaccurate. It heavily misrepresents the purpose of GrapheneOS and what we've worked on for years. The claim GrapheneOS is a security project rather than a privacy project is misinformation. Contacts are specifically brought up and yet our Contact Scopes feature is ignored. @fla knows GrapheneOS is a privacy project. He replied to a thread with our response to this misinformation only 4 days ago...

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Fla 1d ago

@GrapheneOS @projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft

Thank you for pointing contact scopes, I was not aware of this feature. We have edited the transcription to reflect this. Thanks for your work on Graphene, and have a nice day.

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GrapheneOS

@fla @projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft Contact Scopes is one of the core features of GrapheneOS and is shown in any prompt for contacts access. Storage Scopes is a similar feature for the media and storage permissions. Similar features for Camera, Microphone and Location are being developed by us. Android has a standard Mock Location feature but we want to replace that with a per-app Location Scopes implementation.

The podcast and article still wrongly claim GrapheneOS isn't a privacy project.

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GrapheneOS 1d ago

@fla @projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft How is GrapheneOS not a privacy project when it adds much stronger privacy protections, keeps up far better with standard privacy patches/protections and puts far more care into the services being private?

There's a third party comparison between AOSP-based operating systems at https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm which has sections on both privacy and the default Google services included in the Android Open Source Project and additional ones which are being added.

Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

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GrapheneOS 1d ago

@fla @projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft

> However, there is not a lot that is being done about privacy.

How does this hold up against an actual comparison of what's offered? GrapheneOS closely keeps up with current privacy patches and protections, while the other 3 operating systems lag far behind.

GrapheneOS provides Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes and other major enhancements to privacy while the others don't do much beyond increasingly ineffective DNS filtering that's easy to bypass.