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I'm wondering the same. Hopefully privacy oriented projects such as GrapheneOS can counter whatever technology they will try to implement.
Patriot act requires them to do so. I am gonna guess they probably will unless they want to go to federal prison.
Jokes on them. Run Linux phone, Android apps become useless. The PinePhones have the modem as an isolated module from the rest of the phone, connected via USB, so the modem can't do anything too invasive.
You can technically bypass anything. Purpose of these type of laws is not catch all to access every single information under the sun. Real goal is make it so inconvenient and damaging to people material beings that 99.99% of the people rather give up their rights, data and freedom.
Not if it's disabled in hardware. This is what PinePhones have:
You're right. I hadn't even checked where GrapheneOS was based, that's bad.