FUTO legendary grant recipient: Nick Merrill of Calyx Institute, privacy focused Android fork

👉 FUTO: https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo
👉 FUTO grants email: grants@futo.org Email about your project. What's the harm? The worst that happens is they ignore, delete, or say no.
👉 CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/
👉 How Google'd android violates your privacy:
🔵 https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf
🔵 https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf
👉 Recent news example of how Google can mess with your life: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
👉 FUTO youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FUTOTECH

Timestamps by the one & only, Fredericus Maximus:
00:00 Introduction to FUTO legendary grant program - grants@futo.org
01:37 Calyx Institute
05:44 War on Terror
08:18 Google-flagging a father for supposed CSAM content
10:40 Apple & Google private data of people and unencrypted data stored in cloud
12:36 EZ Pass and tracking of cars
14:16 Karen Neighbors, spying cameras.
15:31 The Patriot Act
20:18 The Goal of CalyxOS
23:23 Data Collection from Google Play Services
23:52 Alternatives to apps that collects your data
27:25 MicroG and how it contributes to a usable device
30:49 What would you improve on if you had the funding?
32:09 Why use pixel as the basis to fight google? seems like using google to fight google.
35:25 The biggest hurdles for open source adoptions
37:57 Locked bootloaders on phones
41:27 Criticism on Apple ecosystems
43:03 How to grow the open source movement
46:20 Louis fks up the catchphrase :(