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<title>Free Your Android!</title> |
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<h1>Free Your Android!</h1> |
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<div id="introduction"> |
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<div class="image" id="hello-free-droid"> |
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<img src="/activities/android/robot.png" alt="Liberated Android Robot" /> |
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<p> |
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Android is a <a |
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href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html" |
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title="Android and Users' Freedom">mostly free</a> operating system |
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developed mainly by Google. Unfortunately, the drivers for most |
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devices and most applications from the "market" are not |
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<a href="/freesoftware/freesoftware.html" title="What is Free Software?">free (as in free speech, not as in no cost)</a>. |
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They frequently work against the interest of the users, |
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spy on them, and sometimes cannot even be removed. |
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This campaign can help you to <strong>regain control</strong> |
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of your Android device and your data. We collect information about |
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running an Android system as free as possible and try to coordinate |
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the efforts in this area. |
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Do you want a mobile device that was really yours when you bought it? |
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Do you want a mobile device that does not spy on you and hand over your data to big corporations? |
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Then read on! |
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<video controls="controls" width="100%" id="freeyourandroid"> |
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/Free%20Your%20Android%20-%20EP.webm" type="video/webm" /> |
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/Free%20Your%20Android%20-%20EP.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> |
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</video> |
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<h3><a href="/activities/android/liberate.html">Liberate Your Device</a></h3> |
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Learn how to liberate your device and how to regain control of your data |
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by switching to a free Android operating system with free (as in freedom) apps. |
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We have collected information to help you regain control. |
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<div class="action"><a href="/activities/android/liberate.html">Regain Control</a></div> |
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<h3><a href="/activities/android/help.html">Help Making Liberation Effortless</a></h3> |
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Liberating devices should be effortless, so that everybody can enjoy freedom. |
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There are many ways you can help to achieve this goal, |
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even if you don't know how to program. |
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<div class="action"><a href="/activities/android/help.html">Contribute</a></div> |
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</div> |
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<h2 style="clear:both;" id="Why">Why Your Mobile Device Needs To Be Free</h2> |
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<li><a href="#ReasonFreedom">Freedom and Control</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#ReasonPrivacy">Privacy</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#ReasonSustainability">Sustainability</a></li> |
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</ul> |
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<p> |
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Mobile devices are small computers that we carry around all the time. |
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They know our current location and contain private pictures. We use |
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them to communicate with our friends, our family and maybe our secret |
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love. They also provide access to the internet and have built-in |
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camera and microphone. Being such powerful tools, they can bring great |
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risks to privacy, but at the same time we can achieve great things |
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with them: it depends on who controls them. |
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<h3 id="ReasonFreedom">Freedom and Control</h3> |
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Most mobile devices are not controlled by the users, but by the manufacturer |
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and the operator. The software that runs on them is not Free Software. |
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Even Android phones ship with non-free software and proprietary add-ons |
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that often work against the full interest of the user. Software |
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updates will only be made available as long as the manufacturer still has a |
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commercial interest in your device. The applications (apps) available |
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from the official market are commonly non-free. Nobody is |
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allowed to study how they work and what they really do on your phone. |
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Sometimes they just don't work exactly as you want, but oftentimes they |
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even contain malicious features. |
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<p> |
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Running exclusively Free Software on your device puts you in full control. |
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Even though you may not have the skills to directly exercise all of your freedom, |
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you will benefit from a vibrant community that can do it together. |
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<h3 id="ReasonPrivacy">Privacy</h3> |
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Our mobile devices contain more personal information than most private |
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diaries. But proprietary systems, even most Android phones, are designed |
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to hand over this data to companies like Google or Apple. Most |
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users do not have full control over the personal data on their device. |
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Convenient solutions for synchronisation and data backup |
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trick more and more people into storing all their data on centralised |
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servers run by some profit-driven corporation. These are usually based in the US |
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and are required to hand your data over to the US government on mere request. |
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Whoever has personal information about us is able to manipulate us. |
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Therefore, non-free devices are a threat to democracy and to our society. |
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Privacy is one of the most important reasons to support Free Software. |
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Proprietary add-ons like <a |
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ">Carrier IQ</a> spy on |
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smartphone users without their knowledge. Many apps from the market |
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contain malicious features. They read your private data, such as |
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/15/apple-iphone-address-book-privacy" |
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title="Apple faces US inquiry over iPhone address book privacy">your address book,</a> |
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and "phone home", or they use |
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<a href="https://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/mobile/android.html#overview">Google Analytics</a> |
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to send data to Google. These are just a few examples out of many that have been |
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discovered so far. The lack of freedom impedes independent inspection |
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and secret spy features only become known by accident. |
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<p> |
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Most smartphones require you to connect and identify yourself to a |
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centralised server before you can use them properly. Users have to trust |
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the server without knowing what information is stored and how it is |
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processed or related to other data. A phone running only Free Software |
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does not require you to provide data to an untrustworthy company or |
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pressure you to do so – at least this is very unlikely, as the |
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software's actions would be obvious and the community would be able to |
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develop an alternative version. The convenience of "value-added" |
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services that are often coupled with such connections can be provided |
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using Free Software as well. This keeps you in control of your personal |
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data. Your diary remains in your possession. You can have your cake and |
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eat it too. |
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<h3 id="ReasonSustainability">Sustainability</h3> |
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Planned obsolescence is a serious problem that has both financial and environmental drawbacks. |
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<a href="/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability.html">More on Sustainability of Free Software</a>. |
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<h2>Other Related Initiatives</h2> |
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<p> |
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Even though this campaign is about Android, there are other |
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initiatives that make it possible to use small mobile computers with |
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(mostly) Free Software. Due to the driver situation of mobile |
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hardware, none of these initiatives really can run such machines in |
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freedom. Non-free drivers and firmware are needed for many peripherals |
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to work. |
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<p> |
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On our wiki, we collect |
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<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Android/OtherInitiatives">other initiatives</a>. |
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Please help us to maintain this list. |
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<h2>Join the community or ask questions.</h2> |
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If you have any questions about this campaign or have questions on liberating your phone, |
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just ask the community. Send an email <a href="mailto:android@lists.fsfe.org">to our mailing list</a>. |
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Everybody interested in the campaign is |
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<a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android">subscribed</a> there and is insterested in exchanging knowledge. |
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<p> |
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For general information about FSFE's work that is not related to the "Free Your Android" campaign, |
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please use <a href="/contact/contact.html">the general contact page</a>. |
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<h2>Participating Organisations</h2> |
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<a href="https://digitalcourage.de"><img src="/activities/android/DC.png" alt="digitalcourage" title="digitalcourage" /></a> |
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<a href="http://ansol.org/"><img src="/activities/android/ansol.png" alt="Associação Nacional para o Software Livre" title="Associação Nacional para o Software Livre" /></a> |
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</p> |
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<description>Regain control of your Android device and your data: this campaign is about freedom, control and privacy.</description> |
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<legal type="cc-license"> |
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<license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</license> |
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<notice>Portions of this page are |
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modifications based on work created and shared by Google and |
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used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 |
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Attribution License. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.</notice> |
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