This is very important to highlight. Mobile has tremendously changed the goal posts in terms of what are acceptable things to do on a system and what violates the privacy of the user, and no one noticed.
Imagine a piece of software in the 2000s that sent all your emails, contacts, etc to a central server when running on your desktop computer, made by a large American company. There would have been utter outrage and legal ramifications.
Imagine a piece of software in the 2000s that sent all your emails, contacts, etc to a central server when running on your desktop computer, made by a large American company. There would have been utter outrage and legal ramifications.