I'm mad. I'm honestly really upset about the current state of our mobile phone

options. I want privacy and security when it comes to my communication devices.

And I often lie to myself and say that's the single most important feature of a

phone. I don't want anyone eavesdropping on what I do when I'm on my phone. But

the reality is every single thing I do on my phone is being recorded and

since somewhere see the two biggest smartphones out there are Google's Android

and Apple's iPhone. Something like 95% of all phones out there are either

Android or Apple phones and I'm telling you both are huge data collectors.

Google's privacy policy says it logs your phone numbers calling party numbers

forwarding numbers time and date of calls duration of calls SMS routing

information types of calls and your IP address. Apple collects your account

information device information contact details browsing history search history

and your location. This is not privacy. On top of that there are so many apps and

websites out there that are fiendishly trying to get all my data and the

phones operating system could do quite a bit to stop my data from just leaking out

but they don't do enough. Like I can't stand using normal text messaging anymore

or a standard browser on these phones because neither are private. But that's all

finding good actually I don't even care if Google and Apple does that but here's

the part where I'm mad. I'm mad that there's no good options for privacy

focused phones out there. Like you can't walk into any of the mobile phone

stores and say hey I want a phone that actually respects my privacy none of the

mobile phone stores carry privacy focused phones. We are currently facing an

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