beaverman20 What data is Apple collecting about me, exactly? Are they snooping on my Proton Mail and Signal communications? Are they storing my iMessages despite my iCloud being disabled? Do they still work with PRISM (or whatever the new version is) and siphon off all my data for government storage? These are the kinds of questions that keep me up at night.
- We don't know. Might be nothing, might be everything.
- Possibly. When you are compromised at the OS level, nothing you do can really be effective. All communication is decrypted on device, so if there was, say a system component making screenshots all the time and analyzing them with OCR (cough Recall cough), it would be almost untraceable and would reveal all your activities. iOS is closed source code, so we don't know. Since jailbreaking iOS also has dried out in recent years, it's getting even harder to analyze the system.
- Possibly, but unlikely.
- Most likely. There was no reason for PRISM to end, so I expect it to be up and running. Don't forget that PRISM focused way more on the provider side of things (siphoning off data server side) while nowadays it's more likely to focus on client side due to end-to-end-encryption, DoH/DoT and similar problems.
Just switching to Graphene won't solve all of your problems though. You need to change your mindset about running invasive apps if you want to significantly decrease data collection. I myself run FOSS apps only in my main profile and actively monitor connections with RethinkDNS to make sure nothing shady is going on (all seems good so far). I have Play Services running in my work profile (through Shelter) without a Google account. But - Google probably knows that the phone belongs to me. They just don't get much data out of it. If you need any advice on specific apps and alternatives, you're free to ask.