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<title>FSFE launches Campaign For A Free Android System</title>
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<h1>FSFE launches Campaign For A Free Android System</h1>
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<p>
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Smartphones have a privacy problem.
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This is one of the reasons why the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
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is launching its <a href="/activities/android/android.html">"Free Your Android!" campaign</a> today.
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"Users deserve to have full control over their mobile devices",
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says Torsten Grote, FSFE member and initiator of the campaign.
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"If your phone runs Free Software, you're in charge.
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If it runs proprietary software, you're handing control of your digital life to manufacturers and app developers."
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</p>
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<p> The lack of software freedom on smartphones and tablets is becoming
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increasingly problematic. Many apps <a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ">spy on their users without
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their knowledge</a> (Carrier IQ) and <a
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/15/apple-iphone-address-book-privacy">transmit
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personal data such as address books on the iPhone</a>. Other devices are
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completely locked down, prevent users from uninstalling certain apps, or just
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do not receive updates.
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"Free Your Android!" promotes versions of Android optimised for user control,
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and an <a href="http://f-droid.org/">alternative market that only provides
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free-as-in-freedom apps</a>. It also invites people to contribute to
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various initiatives and to identify essential apps that still have no free
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alternatives.
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<p> "The Android operating system may be mostly free, but many applications
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are not", says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President. "Mobile devices contain
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lots of data about our lives. With this campaign, we will not only build
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awareness of how much privacy and freedom matter for smartphones and tablets,
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we will also give users the means to make their own devices better." </p>
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The Free Your Android campaign encourages people to get in touch with developers of useful proprietary apps.
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Often these apps are distributed free of charge, but not under a free licence.
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Responses and objections by developers are collected and <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android">analysed in a wiki</a>.
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Currently the FSF, and the German privacy organisation FoeBuD e.V.
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are working with FSFE in an effort to improve the conditions for software freedom
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and privacy in the mobile space.
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FSFE is looking forward to other organisations joining the campaign.
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