GrapheneOS is a free and open-source mobile operating system, built on top of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) but with a strong focus on privacy and security. It’s developed independently, with no ties to Google or any hardware vendor, and it’s the operating system I’ve been recommending (and using on my own devices) for years, both on the phone side and on the tablet side. Compared to the Android you get out of the box on a new Samsung Galaxy, nothing phone or even Google Pixel, GrapheneOS is a fundamentally different thing. Where stock Android ships deeply integrated with Google’s services, that constantly sync contacts, calendars, search history, advertising identifiers, approximate location, and trickle telemetry back to Mountain View, GrapheneOS strips all of that out by default. Where vendor Android additionally ships with preloaded apps from Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and the manufacturer’s own ecosystem, each with their own telemetry pipeline, GrapheneOS ships with…
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