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Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer
(www.androidauthority.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Basically, if you don't have a phone the cops can easily backdoor, you must be a criminal.
"What do you have to hide?" taken to it's logical conclusion.
... and if it's an obscenely expensive one.
Normal people either can't afford these devices or don't have time for all the hassle of installing and using a rare operating system on a phone.
You can install Graphene from the browser, it's really not a huge hassle to install especially if you do it right when you get the phone.