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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Alan Martin

DeGoogled Android phone launches in the UK

The DeGoogled smartphone Murena One, which protects your privacy

(Picture: Murena One Android)

It’s well established that buying a smartphone typically involves sacrificing a certain amount of privacy as manufacturers and app makers generally like to track owner behaviour. Conventional wisdom suggests that’s just part of the pay-off for the convenience that modern devices offer.

But Murena, a start-up founded by Mandrake Linux creator Gaël Duval, intends to offer buyers the best of both worlds: a smartphone that behaves like your average Android device, while giving users control over their privacy and data sharing.

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