The Netherlands’s ASN Bank Disabilizes Google Non-Google Android Included in GrapheneOS

As the Bank of the Netherlands, an institution known for fairness and ethical values, a conflicted attitude was exhibited in its own mobile app ** blocking non-Google Android alternatives** decision. This limit keeps the privacy-based operating systems such as GrapheneOS. This problem reported by developers on GitHub was alerting in the open source and privacy community.

The application of ASN Bank refuses access to the following systems:

• GrapheneOS — Specially configured Android fork without Google services u
• Other non-Google Android versions and custom ROMs
• No different preferences by restricting the use of the user’s selected operating system
• A common but controversial security method in bank applications

Bank applications often do certification checks and device integrity verification, but these applications sometimes block legitimate privacy solutions. ** Users who want to use the privacy-oriented software** face the risk of losing access to banking services. This situation creates a conflict between ethical values and data protection principles.

ASN Bank continues to print by the community to change this policy. While the security requirements of banks are legitimate, blockchain attitude against privacy-based alternative solutions is unmatched with open source philosophy and user autonomy principles.