> Our main revenue creation tactic ... involves utilizing persistent bait-and-switching ... That's a very clear confession of mens rea[1]. > Clever Indicators

> Our main revenue creation tactic ... involves utilizing persistent bait-and-switching ... That's a very clear confession of mens rea[1]. > Clever Indicators - Intro > This monitoring system keeps specialized information contained within the device so that our company and your company is not able to take in any raw or identifiable data. This means there is no legal issues across borders. Aka, intent to bypass GDPR and similar laws by "cooking" the data (e.g. hashing) into what DJB calls[2] "magic crypto pixie dust" that "takes personally identifiable information and makes it incomprehensible to the marketing department" or anybody else that doesn't understand how hashes can be reversed, correlated, tracked, etc. > The software takes in things like acceleration XYZ, geoposition, SMS send/receiving timings ..., GSM strength and estimated XYZ location, nearby audio, nearby MAC address/wifi names, and nearby cell phones discovered through a completely passive side channel attack The rest of "Schedule 'Z'" shows some of the uses for that data. After reading that, does anybody still think giving easy access to sensors is a good idea? You cannot determine the behavior of Turing complete software without running it, and you cannot enumerate badnesss. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea [2] https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html#bernstein https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...