, Senior Staff Technologist, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project November 18, 2025 Subscribe to the Free Future Newsletter Free Future home Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control, thanks to a combination of government overreach and technocratic infrastructure choices. Most Americans have a smartphone, and the average American spends over...