I am looking for solutions and would appreciate some recommendations.
Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
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Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#2I don't think it is possible.
Any data on your computer, phone or online is already compromised or can be at anytime.
I don't think private data exists.
There are steps you can do to help keep data more private but nothing reliable or for sure.
If it's online or in your phone I'd assume it's not secure.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#3Store your key data on disks in your home.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#4Enable encryption on your phone. Limit the apps you use. Limit permissions to apps. Even tho apps can only see their data. You can create separate users to further limit data access.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#5Use a VPN client, don't allow location, files or contacts access to applications you don't trust, look for alternatives to software you don't trust.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#6Protect it from whom? Family? Casual thieves? Hackers? Corporations? Governments?
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#7Use a VPN client, don't allow location, files or contacts access to applications you don't trust, look for alternatives to software you don't trust.
> Use a VPN client
Please stop parroting this fallacy. Unless you operate the VPN server that you are connecting to, which most people won't, then you aren't doing much to improve your privacy at all. You're just redirecting all of your connectivity through some other third-party which may or may not be trustworthy, and from there, onto some other ISPs which may or may not be trustworthy.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#8Use a VPN client, don't allow location, files or contacts access to applications you don't trust, look for alternatives to software you don't trust.
> Use a VPN client Please stop parroting this fallacy. Unless you operate the VPN server that you are connecting to, which most people won't, then you aren't doing much to improve your privacy at all. You're just redirecting all of your connectivity through some other third-party which may or may not be trustworthy, and from there, onto some other ISPs which may or may not be trustworthy.
Not a fallacy if you do your research properly before choosing a VPN.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Use a VPN client Please stop parroting this fallacy. Unless you operate the VPN server that you are connecting to, which most people won't, then you aren't doing much to improve your privacy at all. You're just redirecting all of your connectivity through some other third-party which may or may not be trustworthy, and from there, onto some other ISPs which may or may not be trustworthy.
Not a fallacy if you do your research properly before choosing a VPN.
You make the dangerous assumption that a) people research properly before choosing a VPN and b) people even know what to look out for.
Re: Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a fallacy if you do your research properly before choosing a VPN.
You make the dangerous assumption that a) people research properly before choosing a VPN and b) people even know what to look out for.
Actually you are the one that started your argument by making assumptions.