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We've decided that privacy and freedom from surveillance is highly valued and deserving protection. The target audience of that company is teenagers of helicop
by HarryHirsch 9y ago
We've decided that privacy and freedom from surveillance is highly valued and deserving protection.
The target audience of that company is teenagers of helicopter parents. Whatever they have on their phones isn't privileged or valuable information, so the civil damages approach doesn't work too well. Some may have (against all advice) nudes on them, but I'd rather not wait until those are available to the public, and even then only those whose nudies escaped can sue.
The law needs to project the notion that privacy is valued, because it is highly valued. The only idea that I can come up with is to restrict availability of spyware. Others may have better suggestions.
- caf 9y agoMy suggestion is to require spyware like this to put up an obvious indication on the screen of the device that spyware is active on it. That still allows parents and employees, the supposed target audience, to use the software for its alleged intended purpose, but renders it useless for the illegal use cases.