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The FBI as advanced persistent threat
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Librem 5 USA Smartphone Provides Many Exclusive Security Features
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NitroKey disappoints me
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Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
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Unplugged Phone Mysteries
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Strava abruptly ends 3rd party data sync to Apple Health
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Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese
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Study Warns Android Phones from Samsung, Xiaomi and Others Are Spying on Users
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Study reveals scale of data-sharing from Android mobile phones
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A study of data collection by Android devices
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Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
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NSA Mobile Device Best Practices
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Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
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On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
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How Android developers access installed apps on user’s device [pdf]
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Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras
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Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware
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US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
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How to stay private when using Android
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Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware
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Ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system
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Google's software mistreats or harms the user
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Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
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How can phone companies detect tethering?
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Lockdown Mode on the Librem 5: Beyond Hardware Kill Switches
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Mobile Device Management invades privacy
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Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
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Verizon announces plans to install a download-tracking app on its Android phones
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Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
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Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones
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Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default
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Permissions asked for by Uber Android app
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Hey Paypal, why do you need access to my microphone, camera and photos?
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A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
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Android betrays tethering data
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South Korea bans unremovable mobile bloatware
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Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home
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Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent
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Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus
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The Most Secure Android Phone, Ever
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Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free”
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Google's mismanagement of the Android Market
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Google Phone is confirmed, employees already have them in hand
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