｢ Specifically, organized crime members in Catalonia use GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused operating system that keeps your data out of Google’s reach. Criminals and gang members in Spain prefer using GrapheneOS on Pixel phones, and there’s a good reason for it. GrapheneOS implements full disk and metadata encryption, a security feature exploited by miscreants. But it works best on Pixels ｣
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crime-preferred-phone-3573578/
The GPD MicroPC 2 is a 7-inch laptop with swivelling touchscreen, Intel N250 chipset, and plenty of ports - will Linux users like it much as the original?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/gpd-micropc-2-specs-price?v2
💰 California jury orders Google to pay $314 million over data transfers from Android phones • The Record
｢ A California jury has ordered Google to pay $314 million for collecting data from Android phones while they were connected to cellular networks, a practice that plaintiffs said equated to stealing a resource that they had paid for ｣
https://therecord.media/google-lawsuit-data-collection-android-cellular
Google's data transfers from idle Android phones on cellular networks essentially amounted to stealing, lawyers alleged in a class-action case where a jury awarded $314 million to plaintiffs. Google said it will appeal.
Leaving aside any political ideology, but for me every government should use free software, governments like the Brazilian one spend millions on proprietary software like Windows or Office 365 when in many cases free suites would already be fully capable of doing the heavy lifting.
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