What Is The Most Private Phone You Can Get?

What is the most private phone and what makes a phone private? That is the question... and we have answers! Please support my work:   / thehatedone   Smartphones are ultimate spying devices. Apple is collecting your detailed usage information even if you opt out. Google is tracking your location even if you turn it off entirely. And the predatory advertising industry is gathering, selling and sharing your data with no precautions, making you fall victim to scammers, fraudsters or power-tripping cops. Of course, the big tech is getting backlash for the dystopia they are building for us. So now they are all telling us that they take our privacy seriously and do everything they can to protect it. But how can you trust their claims? All of this is really just marketing. Is there a method that’s based on evidence that can tell us which options are actually private? Yes, that’s what we are going to do in this video. We are gonna analyze which phone on the market is currently the most private option for you. There are myriads of phones to choose from so to keep things simpler, here’s what I decided to do: We’ll make the iPhone its own category, which will compete against Pixel phones from Google. Then all the remaining Android vendors will be grouped into one category. I am singling out Pixel here for reasons that will become clear later. Then we’ll also have to test all of these against AOSP + forks because they do offer some advantages as well as disadvantages. And among them, GrapheneOS will also be singled out due to facts that will be explained along the way. How do we decide how private any given phone is? Well, you can ask people who have something to sell you or you can use something like a benchmark to test the phone against. Our benchmark is gonna privacy threat model called LINDDUN. LINDDUN is basically just a list of seven privacy threat categories. These threats encompass everything personal data on your phone can be exposed to. From creepy advertisers and data brokers, through hackers and government agencies, to bad practice and conduct at the companies themselves. LINDDUN was built for privacy engineering and we are not engineers but we can still use it. We will take these seven threat categories and measure how much each phone is exposing our data to each threat. We’ll go by each LINDDUN category and assign a point for when a phone is vulnerable to a privacy threat. So the more points a phone gets, the worse it is for your privacy. This is gonna be very easy to follow and reproducible so if you think I got some stuff wrong, you can follow this method yourself and offer your perspective. Sources To follow this card by card, you can follow LINDDUN Go: https://linddun.org/go/ LINDDUN privacy threats: https://linddun.org/threats/ Types of privacy threats: https://linddun.org/threat-types/ AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not: https://apnews.com/article/828aefab64... Google clarifies location-tracking policy: https://apnews.com/article/ef95c6a91e... Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-anal... Apple Says Your iPhone’s Usage Data is Anonymous, but New Tests Say That’s Not True: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-priv... Music by CO.AG Music  @co.agmusic  Follow me:   / the_hatedone_     / thehatedone   The footage and images featured in the video were for critical analysis, commentary and parody, which are protected under the Fair Use laws of the United States Copyright act of 1976.