[theaudacityofyw]

Android would still be running Google so I guess it's a risk either way. At least Apple seem to be more secure by default without any user config.

Looked this up and there is indeed a Russian company called Ayya, making smartphones with a switch to disable the microphone. It'll also be changing from Android to a domestically made OS, it seems. https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/russia-ayya-t1-sm...

[malermeister]

Doesn't need to be a Google version of Android. Since it's open source, there's plenty of non-Google forks, such as this one, focusing on privacy and security: https://grapheneos.org/