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Privacy Recommendations for a Young Teen
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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If privacy is your topic, iPhones are out.
You could check /e/OS for example with Fairphone that includes parental control feature.
Your parents do not matter in this context and it would be shameful to use such features.
Avoid tracking apps and tracking in apps. Avoid big tech like Meta and use Signal instead. If your child is not willing to do without Tiktok, Insta and so on, you won't prevent. You can only explain. Remember: Divice literacy is not media literacy
iOS has a nice default set of privacy respecting apps. iOS isn’t perfect but it’s as close as you can get to having a usable phone while having some sort of privacy.
Android always sends requests to Google. A de-googled phone with no Play Services is too limiting.
If you meant even deGoogled Androids (e.g. /e/OS as suggested here), not stock Android, then can you please send references on that?
Isn't microG with alternative app stores sufficient for most people?
I did not meant fully degoogled androids! Sorry for the confusion. But most people running custom ROMs add Google play support/emulation because most apps use it.
As for microG, since I’m coming from GrapheneOS, I don’t know much about it. Might be a better solution
Person is in seventh grade the fact their parents want to use parental controls isn't that odd.
Probably separating them with Shelter or similar is a good idea though? I’m not exactly sure how it works (unfortunately currently an iPhone user)