To truly hide your identity on mobile, Tor is adapting the leading anonymous operating system for PCs, The Amnesic Incognito Live System ( TAILS). Even the Blackphone, the much-hyped new $629 privacy-centric mobile phone from Silent Circle, is still tied tightly to your identity. Androids, iPhones, and the rest of the mobile heavyweight operating systems all broadcast countless details about their users’ identities. But there are few if any real options for secure operating systems.

Over the past year, as Edward Snowden’s leaks revealed the vast extent of the NSA’s global surveillance capabilities-which include collecting mass phone records and 200 million texts, installing spyware on laptops, as well as comprehensive monitoring of the Internet-and spurred a new global interest in privacy and security to combat the NSA’s eavesdropping.ĭevelopers have released a number of high profile security mobile apps recently. Over 87 percent of the world’s population own mobile phones, making them a prime target for spy agencies around the world.

The team behind Tor, the world’s leading online anonymity service, is developing an anonymous smartphone operating system. But ideally, you won’t even know they’re there. A major new player is about to enter the mobile phone space.

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