GrapheneOS is bringing secure PDF and photography apps to the Google Play Store
Search camera apps on thePlay Storeand you can end up scrolling for what seems like hours. It’s great to have so many choices, but also a little overwhelming, and in settling on the one you want it can be easy to forget thatsecurityand privacy may not always betoppriorities in the app’s development. So it’s good news to learn thatGrapheneOShas created a couple of apps for which personal privacy is number one.
As first notedby XDA, the GrapheneOS apps areSecure CameraandSecure PDF, and yes, they are all about privacy. Secure Camera plays well with phones like theGoogle Pixelline and can handle a variety of common tasks beyond photography like scanning QR codes and regular barcodes. Secure Camera only asks for camera access and takes steps with storage and sound recording that don’t require any other permissions. It will ask for location permission if geotagging is already turned on and automatically strips the EXIF metadata from your photos. As for Secure PDF, it follows suit safety-wise and requires no special permissions to do its job.
Since they are open-source, it’s possible to take a look at the code forSecure CameraandSecure PDFon Github. Both are available on the Google Play Store now, just click below.
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