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Including a concern that Google's Pentagon deal could mean mass surveillance of EU citizens.

Google's own staff don't trust them anymore... we shouldn't either.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm worried that with all the legal attempts by governments around the world trying to undermine privacy and encryption and enforce ID verification and total surveillance, Motorola might get cold feet about the deal. There are powerful people in many countries who would love to make GrapheneOS illegal.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Let's hope that doesn't happen. Graphene is BY FAR our best option, by a large margin.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

In the short term, probably. It's still android though. There's no technical reason why phones can't be running actual Linux though, which provides users real freedom.

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

It's not, postmarketOS or even SailfishOS are much better, because they don't depend on Android,