Anonymous931 thanks for the response. Unfortunately this is only a portion of the issue for us. im tracked Just by talking near my phone, getting emails through gmail, paying for stuff, and so on. I use a VPN and private DNS but that doesn’t solve all the tracking with the phone backend and hardware id. GrapheneOS solves this issue because it doesn’t have googles spyware baked in.
New android phones will be even harder to make private with side loading removed.
In Australia politicians used data brokers to send emails to us with our names included. We never gave out these details yet every single person had an email addressed. I recently did a subject at uni in cyber security and it was quite a wake up call to how many ways Google turns our data into cash. The eu and US have some laws to address this but not Australia unfortunately
