Police Profiling Based on Google Pixel with GrapheneOS: A Privacy Perspective
By
pabs3
Kettled twice. Extra chewy, extra trustworthy.
Summary
Police in Spain are profiling people based on their phones, associating Google Pixel devices with crime due to drug traffickers using GrapheneOS. The author challenges this assumption, highlighting their preference for GrapheneOS for privacy reasons.
Key quotes
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As someone who has used a Pixel phone with GrapheneOS, I find this assumption a bit unsettling.
GrapheneOS offers some of the best privacy and security features of any smartphone operating system, but is it too effective at what it does?
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