fairphones also support it, and a few other relatively popular ROMs

but politicians would have always been exempted from chat control

you should have edited the title. but yours is a new account, maybe you don’t yet know lemmy lets you do that

A bit cringe on the “we’re white collar thugs and we will bully you until you do as we say”,

but isn’t it 100% true?

how long did it take to write this all down?

like the possibility to completely disable the data lines in the USB port

the fairphone 4 can do that, calyxos makes use of it

what would you consider a better vendor? samsung, xiaomi, oneplus? those all have been plenting more and more malware into their phones from the factory, sometimes making it seem like a feature, and recently they started to bar owners from replacing the OS on it by taking away the option to unlock the bootloader

how will the parent do the parenting when the kid can do whatever on the phone given to them when the parent is not around?

parental control software is (supposed to be) what it says it on the tin: software that lets the parent to set up limitations on the device.

built in parental controls are supposed to be options, that the owner can opt into and out of it.

not imprison them, but maybe taking away or limiting child support. but that will 100% not work with the rich.

forcing the parents to install parental control software… that would be like, here are these approved options, and you like it or not you must use them despite their privacy policies.
instead commercial operating systems (windows, googlified android) could be required to have parental controls built in, and free software systems could apply for funding to implement it, or some other kind of collaboration.

but this is not capitalistic so it wont happen.

afaik parental controls do not exist on degoogled android. windows has it with third party tools, linux does not have any

and doesn’t require a phone number or even an email

wait, doesn’t it rely on the email system?

I would rather have signal possibly collect my social graph than google through gmail.

I think their point is that signal knows the phone number associated to each account, and in lots of countries nowadays phone numbers are only obtained after identity verification.

sealed sender is supposed to hide the identity of the sender from signal servers, but it’s security is questionable as it’s based on blackbox hardware not even signal staff can audit.

yet another? what dou mean?

Illustrated plainly by the fact that the next post to this one in my feed was about the always-controversial bcacheFS author claiming he’s achieved AGI and has a self-aware AI girlfriend.

oh

I was about to ask what happened to trigger this post

I thought the debate is about the baseband software having ancient unfixed vulnerabilities that can give wide access to the phone for network operator systems

is it though? messages are now going through google

Depends on locations but typically in urban areas (which is where most people live now, since the rural flight of the 20th) there are multiple ISPs to chose from.

we have multiple here but there’s no competition in this regard. they are competing in speed, prices and also feelings by deceptive ads, but not in privacy. like, I wouldn’t install the apps of any of them to my phone, because they are full of data mining code.

but there are also things they just couldn’t avoid: law requires them to be keeping logs, and generally they have a stronger obligation for local laws, because the local government can threaten local businesses much more efficiently.

so, most of the cases you can choose from a few options, but regarding privacy… not much variety. you can’t even know before or even after subscribing to them, because how will you check.

VPNs are different because you can choose from thousands (though most are shit), and the claims of better ones will be proven by court.

another point, is that normally your traffic goes unencrypted through ISP equipment of whatever brands. cisco, huawei, ubiquiti, tplink, whatever. what’s even worse, personally I wouldn’t trust any that is cloud controlled through the manufacturer and there’s many brands like that from the USA even.
the ISP bought equipment that they evaluated by whether does it work, not forensically. they probably also inherited a lot of it from another company. a lot of it doesn’t receive security patches anymore, because they are old equipment that still work fine, but it doesn’t matter because they don’t even run the last released patches either.
all the while reputable VPN services are more careful about whos stuff they trust with providing their services.

Most customers are just too lazy to bother picking anything but the most popular choices.

thats right. and they don’t even know what should they be looking out for. but honestly me neither, none of the ISPs seem to be good guys, because there’s nothing in it for them.

TL;DR: most people can actually chose their ISPs.

most people can also choose a smartphone brand, they can also choose between facebook and twitter. it was not my point.

my point is that VPNs can actually give something more that local ISPs can’t, and provide value that way.

My VPN is beholden to the

I think you meant ISP here

exactly as you say, a different company that we can actually choose, unlike our ISP, and which we can decide whether to trust. Mullvad have shown they can be trusted.

google play integrity works at a different level. it checks if you are running a google-approved, “sealed” operating system