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Hakeem Anwar from Above Phone – Epi-3650

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Hakeem Anwar of Above Phone and Take Back Our Tech joins us today to discuss phone privacy and how you can break out of Apple and Google Prison with by using “degoogled” phones with open source operating systems and Above Book a laptop that protects your privacy with amazing preformatnce. If this all sounds complicated, don’t worry Hakeem makes it all easy to understand. Hakeem Anwar, a technologist, activist, educator, and entrepreneur, currently leads a number of projects focused on the intersection of technology and personal freedom. Exiting his corporate career as a software engineer to support activist movements – Continue reading →

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0:00.0

And we're a better way to do this.

0:08.7

Let me show you a better way.

0:15.6

You don't have to be another face in the time.

0:20.1

And we are live, welcome folks to episode 3,650 of the Survival Podcast.

0:26.9

And today we have Hakeem Anwar on from Above Phone.

0:30.3

He's going to talk to us today about taking back your technology, what that actually

0:35.0

looks like, what that actually means.

0:36.7

We're going to talk about things like the above phone today, which is a great tool to take

0:42.3

back your privacy.

0:43.3

It's basically a degouged phone using an open source operating system.

0:51.5

But I'll let Hakeem explain that because he'll do a hell of a lot better of the job.

0:54.4

But if you've ever thought, you know, man, it would be great if they weren't spying

1:00.9

on my money.

1:01.2

It would be great if they weren't collecting all my data.

1:03.3

It would be great if I didn't have somebody censoring the applications I used.

1:06.4

Well, there's a way to do that.

1:08.5

And with that, let's go ahead and take care of our sponsors of the day and I swear to God it just worked out this way today's sponsor today is

1:15.6

above phone at least sponsor the day number one and we're going to be talking about that a

1:20.0

great deal today but I'll tell you what if you get an above phone it will change the way you

1:24.7

look at telecommunications and you'll start to realize just how much your privacy is compromised using that device, you know, from Apple, like an iPhone or what have you.

1:36.0

And they just really do collect everything.

1:38.0

Again, since this did work out this way, I'm going to let Akeem explain it a little bit deeper.

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