If “unidentified foreign governments” are doing it, rest assured that the US government is doing it too. nostr:note1hhscj3k5w39sjwvqyu08fugmyu52vkswpw9993auw5s3j424vn3suceywf
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Any phone is a surveillance device. The important bits are using a browser that does not allow tracking like Brave, and email via non-google system like Protonmail. Use simplex or signal and avoid all Facebook anything and you are 80% there
Also, don’t use google services of any kind, find a new search engine like startpage