Do you think your smartphone is private? Because if you do please stop thinking that.

"But Daring, I can just remove Google apps! That'll make my phone private!"

That'll just keep Google from spying on you, if you own an Android device. In reality, your smartphone (and even dumb phones, to a certain extent) contains records of your text messages, photos, GPS location over the past 24 hours, contacts (including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses), call history and maybe a few documents here and there. It's not really private, if at all, Google or not. Meanwhile, a feature phone contains text message records, contacts and call history, and maybe some photos if it has a camera and enough storage to accommodate photos. So yeah, be careful of what you do and say on your phone, because it can get you in trouble later and prosecutors will have all the evidence they need in one place (provided they can get a search warrant for it.)