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Lineage isn't a big company, its a community project, But if you don't like it, as you can see in AlternativeTo, there are a lot of others. FOSS naturally isn't neccesary also private and secure (Android itself is FOSS), but Lineage or KDE are at least better in this point than a OS made and controlled by Google, offering good and trustworth products. Use an OS produced in the EU, because of the strong privacy norms, which don't exist in US products (KDE is German) If not, dont use a smartphone and use an old Nokia 3300.
I do not recommend anyone, regardless of the OS, to use the smartphone for official procedures, like bamking, no smartphone is a secure device, much less so than a PC, where you have many more protection options available.
If anything bad happens, the OS isn't a problem, if it is a legit one. The problem with mobile phones is other, thr isk to include in it important data, because of the facility that have hackers to acceede this data (in a contest hackers needed less than 30 seconds in a IPhone, using a laptop with certain software., apart of the risk of loss or theft. As in the recent past, Merkel's cell phone, supposedly especially secure, as befits a German chancellor, was hacked and confidential data leaked. Even more risk if you use OS from big US companies that make money selling data to third parties. (surveillance advertising, 21st century plague, you don't know or controll how this third parties threat and protect your data, os sell these to others more)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/03/16/iphone-12-pro-max-and-iphone-13-not-more-secure-than-google-and-samsung-android-warns-cyber-billionaire/
https://www.techradar.com/news/8-reasons-why-smartphones-are-privacy-nightmare
I don't refer to script kiddies or Nigerian scams, but even a script kiddie have the possibility to hack a phone, as seen in the past. Also several databreaches with hundreds of thousands of sensitive data, including bank and medcal data, which were leaked in the past from Apple, MS, FB and Google, show what I say, mobile phones are far from being secure devices, especially if they are of large companies that look more at their own income than at the security and privacy of the user. At least, I don't have any important data in my phone and I recommended everyon to do the same. If it is a workphone from you work, it's different, than the risk is for the company, no yours, because of this, most use the kiosk mode, which with you can connect only to the sites admitted by the company.