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Theme fund: NGI Mobifree Fund
Start: 2025-04
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Middleware and identity

FMD

Privacy-preserving mobile device location

FMD allows you to locate and remotely control your Android device. This is useful if you have lost or misplaced it. FMD is decentralised, and users remain in full control of their data.

With FMD, you can send commands to your phone: to locate it via GPS, to locate it via nearby cell towers, to take a picture, to lock it, to let it ring, or to factory-reset it. Commands can be sent over multiple transport channels: over SMS, over third-party messaging apps like Signal or Matrix (that post a notification to the Android notification tray), or over the "FMD Server" (a self-hostable server providing a web interface to control your device).

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This project was funded through the NGI Mobifree Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. The NGI Mobifree R&D programme is part of Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101135795.