X vs Fairphone
Based on our analysis, Fairphone is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | X | Fairphone |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | F · 24/100 | B- · 68/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (20) | Mixed (65) |
| Who they share it with | Concern (18) | Mixed (72) |
| What you can do | Concern (35) | Mixed (63) |
| What they promise | Concern (38) | Mixed (68) |
X collects everything you do on and off the platform, infers your identity even when you're signed out, and explicitly allows third-party 'collaborators' to use your data to train their own AI models. There is no meaningful way to stop the core collection, your public posts are available via API for mass scraping, and security is disclosed only in the vaguest terms.
View full analysis →Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.
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