The Fairphone is just hardware. Privacy is mostly about software
I was thinking more from the perspective of how much the closed-source proprietary hardware in the Fairphone can be trusted to guarantee your privacy. I had devices like the Pinephone and Librem phone in mind, which provide physical switches for the camera, microphone, GPS and mobile modem.
Another user gave the example I would have used here, where the GPS subsystem in Qualcomm devices freely uses the mobile modem mostly outside of the OS’s control to download satellite almanac updates whenever it needs to, and submitting identifiers for your device over unencrypted HTTP
FFS did no one actually read the OP?
Yep. Personally I see e/OS on the Fairphone as a solid combo for allowing someone to slowly degoogle and take back control without giving up too many creature comforts. It 100% fulfils the software aspect of privacy IMO for the intended user.
It’s primarily the hardware trust aspect that I was thinking about when I wrote my earlier response. Personally, I’m just interested in privacy from the perspective of controlling my data and knowing what’s done with it
I was thinking more from the perspective of how much the closed-source proprietary hardware in the Fairphone can be trusted to guarantee your privacy. I had devices like the Pinephone and Librem phone in mind, which provide physical switches for the camera, microphone, GPS and mobile modem.
Another user gave the example I would have used here, where the GPS subsystem in Qualcomm devices freely uses the mobile modem mostly outside of the OS’s control to download satellite almanac updates whenever it needs to, and submitting identifiers for your device over unencrypted HTTP
Yep. Personally I see e/OS on the Fairphone as a solid combo for allowing someone to slowly degoogle and take back control without giving up too many creature comforts. It 100% fulfils the software aspect of privacy IMO for the intended user.
It’s primarily the hardware trust aspect that I was thinking about when I wrote my earlier response. Personally, I’m just interested in privacy from the perspective of controlling my data and knowing what’s done with it