This is the first draft of a collection of facts about what happens in the Google Android operating system in term of permanent personal data collection. This has been found while working on /e/OS the mobile OS in which we actually try to address those issues. Please contribute if you know about other facts, or if you think something is wrong: https://github.com/leag1234/some-facts-about-the-Google-Android-operating-system-and-personal-data-collection
Leaving Apple & Google – /e/ mobile OS next steps: a Roadmap for 2020
About a year ago, the first beta of /e/ OS, the first un-Googled and privacy-focused Android, was released. And we’ve been hard at work improving it…
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An /e/ Summer update: smartphones for sale, applications, PWAs & next steps
At the end of 2017, the /e/ project was unveiled in a series of articles entitled “Leaving Apple & Google: my (/e/) Odyssey” (Part1, Part2, Part3), with a clear promise: making a fully unGoogled and ready-to-use mobile operating system and online services, yet compatible with Android applications…
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Huawei and other mobile “tech giants”: you should (really) break free from Google/Android
In short: Google-free Android, progressive web apps: there is a big opportunity in the mobile world for market disruption.
Today we learned that Huawei won’t be able to ship Android any more on their smartphones, with likely severe consequences for their mobile device business.
Leaving Apple and Google: a message to /e/ users and supporters!
This is the end of 2018, and this year has been incredible.
By the end of 2017, I posted a few messages here about my quest for more data privacy, and corresponding plans to “Leave Apple and Google”. At this time, I thought I would just customize an Android ROM a bit and that it would be enough for my use and a few others…
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Quick updates about /e/ !
We have released /e/ first beta one month ago, and we already have delivered more than 1,000 test accounts…
We have also opened a new “community” website with lots of contents and forum at https://community.e.foundation – join now!
And a new “crowdfunding” reward for more storage.
Read our latest newsletter below (in several languages):
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta, 1000 test accounts (!), new community forums, new reward…
Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ is the symbol for “my data is MY data”
As some of you will have already noticed, the project has moved to a new web location, and the project is now known as the “my data is MY data” symbol:
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Latest development updates: eelo BlissLauncher v2
Starting from this week, I’m going to regularly unveil a specific eelo feature we’re working one.
As you know, eelo’s purpose is to deliver a full-featured operating system that is offering way better respect of user’s data privacy. In this respect we’re specifically removing any piece of Android that is sending personal data to Google.
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LineageOS operating system: a major open source project that deserves all our attention
The LineageOS project was born from CyanogenMod’s ashes one year ago. And since, it has been embraced by a growing community of contributors and users. Built from Android open source code, it intends to offer a full and independent operating system for mobiles. What is LineageOS? how to install it? what can be expected? Why is it a major open source project?
Let’s have a look…