I suppose if you're someone selling privacy to criminals, it's a lot easier to preconfigure mid-range Android phones to sell than to configure each individual c

I suppose if you're someone selling privacy to criminals, it's a lot easier to preconfigure mid-range Android phones to sell than to configure each individual customer phone for maximum privacy. Also, it's not just about keeping your own data private, but about the other person you're communicating with. If you know the other person is using the same phone you can feel safer that it's secure, as opposed to trusting that the other person is taking things seriously and knows what they're doing when configuring their own phone. Plus it makes it easier to enforce things like messages being deleted after a period of time. The extra cost is easy to justify when you're trying to avoid jail time.