Privacy and Security are Not Always Connected (at least for average joes)

Yes, a device can be private but not secure, and a lot more devices are secure but not private.

Imagine these two screnaios:

1.A phone running some random SELinux-disabled Android 9 firmwares from XDA, with root permissions managed by some ancient version of Magisk. This sounds horrible, right? But the owner only uses it off the grid with stored offline-usable resources like e-books, single player games, music etc. The owner disables all sensors (albeit in software switch) and never connect …

privacy security