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Only for one voice to text feature which is completely optional to use and can be replaced with something else.

As another commenter mentioned, this voice to text feature is now an offline feature and no longer sends data outside the device.

As another note, this Fairphone can be purchased without /e/OS at all. It’s now being sold in the US without Murena being involved at all.



/e/ has other privacy invasive services which are enabled by default. It gives highly privileged access to Google services which are always active and has user tracking in their update client.

/e/ and Murena repeatedly claiming privacy/security hardened devices mainly benefit criminals and falsely claiming they're mainly used by criminals shows what they believe:

https://www.clubic.com/actualite-604786-murena-e-os-intervie...

https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2040887784253141142

/e/ lacks many crucial standard privacy/security patches and protections:

https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2081837057433915603

Fairphones don't provide a reasonable level of privacy and security without /e/ either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354807




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