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Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy?

"Would you pay $15 a month so Android doesn't track you and send all of that data back to Google?" asks Stuff South Africa: A new Swiss-based privacy company thinks $15 is a fair fee for that peace of mind. "A person's data is the original digital currency," argues Apostrophy, which has created it...

asks Stuff South Africa: A new Swiss-based privacy company thinks $15 is a fair fee for that peace of mind. It's based on Android — don't panic — but the version that has already been stripped of Google's intrusiveness by another privacy project called GrapheneOS, which used to be known as CopperheadOS. If you think that is defeating the point, Apostrophy argues that those apps can't get to the vitals of your digital life.

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