You miss a point: smart-phones are "smart phones", so the user must be the dumb since smart and dumb are relative classifications. SmartPhones are not made for

You miss a point: smart-phones are "smart phones", so the user must be the dumb since smart and dumb are relative classifications. SmartPhones are not made for the human user/formal owner how actually own next to nothing but as macro-spy devices, maintained by the spied target, bough by him/her directly. It's the modern evolution of classic spying: in the past was those who surveil to pay, install, maintain spying gears, now they just made them attractive like a drug and their target do the rest. Of course when you are able to form such big cohorts of junkies it's hard not abusing them too much. Some have a certain understatement and control their behaviors, some do not. Oh BTW be happy, because your next smartphone have 4 wheels, can kill you or someone else and it feature more cameras, mics etc.