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Couldn't this simply be done in after market installable software on a general purpose smart watch?
by rightos 9y ago
Couldn't this simply be done in after market installable software on a general purpose smart watch?
- Xylakant 9y agoIt could, but that software would turn the watch into a device that's illegal to own.
- Arnt 9y agoYou cannot sell an illegal device and tell your your customers (nudge nudge wink wink) to install an upgrade to comply with the law. If you sell a legal device, then you cannot offer an upgrade to make it illegal.
- Xylakant 9y agoMore importantly, requiring a software upgrade to enable that functionality would make it obvious that this is indeed of questionable legality and limit the market. Many people buying these watches (or the children dolls affected by the last round of bans) are not aware that these are in fact hidden spying devices.
- blattimwind 9y agoTechnically its not a ban of specific merchandise, since they were already illegal. Its more like, say, a police raid against an arms dealer (=> thats not an arms ban).
- rightos 9y agoI'm not suggesting a first party would do it, but say a platform akin to Pebble, Apple Watch or Android Wear were to enable an app like that to be developed. What part would be illegal then - the device itself? The app? The app store? Restricting this seems somewhere between asinine and impossible.
- germanier 9y agoIllegal would be such an device with that software installed. We restrict many things that are hard to enforce but this is not a reason to refuse to try at all.