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Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe they are thinking along the lines of stopping apps on the phone from using the locally calculated GPS data, since the apps can then send that data elsewhere?

  1. Network kill switch
  2. Location permissions