Your smartphone transmits your location to corporate servers every 4.5 minutes, even when you've explicitly opted out. It knows which medical clinics you visit, which protests you attend, and which friends you spend nights with, and this information is sold to data brokers, advertisers, and government agencies without meaningful consent.

GrapheneOS is an open-source operating system that transforms Google Pixel hardware into a private device under your control, one that has proven resistant to Cellebrite forensic extraction tools used by law enforcement worldwide.

This guide covers the surveillance problem, the technical architecture that solves it, and a complete walkthrough from installation to hardened configuration with privacy-respecting applications. naddr1qqgx...