The worlds worst privacy offenders make/sell phones. Google. Samsung. Apple.
Google, no need to explain.
Samsung? All their apps, their keyboard, collect, collect collect.
Apple? Walled garden of share data with Apple.
And beyond this, for example on Samsung builds, the GPS daemon calls home(Qualcomm? looked into it a year ago...) to update agps data, but also... provide tracking info.
The worlds worst privacy offenders make/sell phones. Google. Samsung. Apple.
Google, no need to explain.
Samsung? All their apps, their keyboard, collect, collect collect.
Apple? Walled garden of share data with Apple.
And beyond this, for example on Samsung builds, the GPS daemon calls home(Qualcomm? looked into it a year ago...) to update agps data, but also... provide tracking info.
None of these people want hardware kill switches.