>But do you really think that any other phone you buy... doesn't have exactly the same problems, only they're still keeping it secret from you? At the moment,

>But do you really think that any other phone you buy... doesn't have exactly the same problems, only they're still keeping it secret from you? At the moment, ALL of the other smartphone models (except iPhone soon) don't have this problem. There's no reason to bother with client-side given the current server-side implementations and this scanning can't be hidden for long.