CalyxOS

Everyone needs a phone. Not everyone wants governments and corporations tracking their every move and spying on their communications. CalyxOS lets you have your cake and eat it too, with “Privacy by Design”.

When you use a phone with CalyxOS:
• phone calls are encrypted so nobody can listen in
• text messages are encrypted and a timer can be set so they disappear
• web browsing is anonymized
• advertising trackers are blocked
• built-in free VPN services protect you from being spied on
• your phone is receiving regular, timely, automatic security updates
• your data is backed up with strong encryption to your personal cloud server or to USB storage

Features:
• Verified Boot to prevent tampering with the phone’s operating system, using cryptographic signatures

• Security and privacy by default: Instead of the bloatware, spyware, and backdoors installed by default on many smartphones, CalyxOS includes a suite of privacy, security, and censorship circumvention apps available out of the box, including Signal, Tor, DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, K-9 Mail, Calyx VPN, and Riseup.

• Android without spyware: CalyxOS has reconfigured Android to avoid Google’s spyware and tracking. It uses F-Droid for installing and updating free software applications, and strips out Google’s privacy-invasive business model, replacing it with microG, which allows you to run nearly every app from Google Play Store without giving Google access to your phone.

• Regular security updates and patches: CalyxOS receives the latest security updates for Android, fixing software vulnerabilities and security flaws that can put your phone at risk.