For years, Android marketed itself as the antidote to Apple’s walled garden. Open. Flexible and developer friendly. That promise is now eroding—fast.

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The recent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study on effectiveness of school phone bans has reignited debate over whether restricting smartphones in schools actually helps students. Its headline result—that strict bans show “close to zero” immediate impact on test scores—has been interpreted by some as evidence that regulation doesn’t work.

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California’s data broker crackdown, AI creeping into browsers, and global surveillance trends signal one truth—individual privacy are under attack. Here’s how Purism is building a future where your data stays yours.

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The finish line! The moment we have anticipated is finally here – PureOS Crimson is released! All devices running PureOS Byzantium will receive the PureOS Upgrade application with their regular software updates. If you’d like to install Crimson fresh, refer to our installation instructions for PCs, servers, and the Librem 5. This has been an […]

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Following the PureOS Crimson beta release in our last post, we are eagerly looking forward to the general release. We received a lot of constructive feedback about the beta, and with only a few blockers left, we are taking the opportunity to make this the best PureOS release yet.

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For years, Apple has sold the myth of the “unhackable iPhone.” A walled garden. A fortress. A device so locked down that only nation-states could dream of breaking in. Wired’s latest reporting just blew that narrative apart.

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We are very pleased to announce that the PureOS Crimson beta is released! This means that we have a new set of install images for all devices - Librem 5, Librem 11, servers, and PCs - and we have a path to upgrade existing installations from Byzantium.

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Surveillance, Breaches, and Gaps in the Law It has become clear that privacy risks are not isolated incidents. They are part of a larger pattern. Major organizations continue to experience large scale data breaches. Brightspeed recently suffered a breach affecting around one million customers. Brightspeed opened an internal cybersecurity investigation in early January this year, after Crimson…

SIM swap attacks are skyrocketing. A SIM Swap attack is when cybercriminals hijack mobile numbers by convincing carriers to transfer a victim’s phone number to a SIM card they control. Once successful, attackers intercept text-based authentication codes, unlocking access to cryptocurrency wallets, banking apps, and social media accounts.

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