Regular Android devices when up-to-date with the latest security patches are quite secure to a certain degree. However when it comes to privacy it's definitely not great. A lot can be configured to be more robust and less permissive though the granularity is very limited. When it comes to Google apps/services however there's simply no way to truly opt-out of many of the background tracking behavior. This is because Google Play Services runs as a system app on these devices, giving it access to a…