Introduction In the previous article in this series, we examined how FOSS projects handle legal takedown requests. However another category of legal risk exists, one that’s often more sensitive and less visible: government requests for user or developer data. These requests can take many forms,from formal court orders and subpoenas,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 03 Oct 2025, Week 40 F-Droid core Back in August we’ve talked about the core of our infrastructure, the servers CPUs and their age. This issue has two paths to be fixed. One in Google’s court, software side, were we’ve heard progress...

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When contrasted with the commercial app stores — of which the Google Play store is the most prominent — the differences are...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Sep 2025, Week 39 Community News We often talk about what we look at when we choose our apps, we want: freedom, privacy, security, transparency and more. With FLOSS apps we get most of those, or at least we can check,...

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is “the EU’s law to make the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable”. F-Droid strongly aligns with many of the ideals of the DMA regarding ensuring user choice and privacy. For example: The DMA has provisions for ensuring third-party software applications or...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 19 Sep 2025, Week 38 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.17.1 but you should skip this update since it keeps on crashing. A fixed update is being tested right now, stay tuned! Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated...

At the beginning of summer, the European Commission held a series of “DMA 2025 compliance workshops” to let the public post questions to the “gatekeepers” as designed under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple App Store, Google Play, Google Maps and Android are all designated as gatekeepers by the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Sep 2025, Week 37 Community News Nine projects will receive grants within the NGI Mobifree and NGI Fediversity pilot programmes. Scroll the list, you might find one of your favorite. The EU currently has yet another public consultation (request for feedback...