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The original was posted on /r/fossdroid by /u/Wavesonics on 2025-05-21 18:32:28+00:00.
Reading news about people’s phones getting seized and searched got me thinking about the problem of taking photos at protests or what ever else.
I looked around and couldn’t find an existing app that ticked all the boxes, so I wrote one:
or snapsafe.org
This keeps all photos locally on your device, in app private storage. No auto-uploads to Google Photos, or even app backup.
The photos are strongly encrypted using hardware backed keys where available.
The app requires a PIN separate from your device PIN. So even if your device has been confiscated and is unlocked, the photos taken in this app are still protected.
There are other features such as auto-face blurring, and a “Poison Pill” which is an alternative PIN, when entered deletes all of your photos.
The aim to provide real security in some of the more extreme scenarios.
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