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Re:Essential Phone, available now by tomaskafka on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:03AM (#15043462)
> Technology should be trustable, and a device where you cannot tell if or when the microphone and/or camera are recording and being remotely accessed is anything but.

Yes. This means no Google services.

Re:Essential Phone, available now by rand005 on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:02AM (#15043714)
It doesn't. You can have hardware indicators.
Re:Essential Phone, available now by coldtea on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:35AM (#15045009)
They won't matter if you voluntarily send your data to Google services...