how do I make my new phone more private (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by sleepycapibara@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi. I just got a new phone (Motorola) and spent a bunch of time manually removing access to location etc. I hate Google so much, "don't do evil" my ass. I'm just looking for my blindspots. Im not in tech so, what should be disabled to keep my phone private?

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[-] Undertaker@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago

It is not. It is better than bloated Google Android but not "great".

They use tracking ids for updates
They are far behind with updates lowering security and thus risking privacy
They use testing keys which is ridicolous
They added OpenAI integration and called it "Murena Voice to Text" so that unfiliar users could unintentially leak sensitive data
They ignore valid critique and call it 'personal harassment' although nothing personal nor something like harassment happen there (for example in related /e/OS threads)

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

Well, apparently they are involved in harassment of gos with caylx and rossman.

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