Salah [ey/em]

You’re helping the city cameras recognise your face by providing regular close-ups of how you look each day via your phone

What I’m saying is if they ever get big enough to become mass produced they have already started to harvest and sell your data.

The problem with mass producing pre-installed linux phones is that you need a lot of capital to mass-produce and any partner that can offer that amount of capital will require you to harvest and sell user data in order to make maximum profit.

There are small companies that offer pre installed linux phones (Murena is an example, though I don’t know too much about them) but they will never become mass adopted in a market economy.