[walterbell]

On the corporate side, these two products may not want to be associated with this "market". Wearable biosensors are already creeping towards surveillance and vendors won't want to further spook citizens.

[BEEdwards]

There is a better than even chance that the GPS tracking device in their pocket was manufactured by or gets service from a company that works directly and openly with the government on matters of intelligence.

You think companies really care about the perception, when people don't?

[Aelinsaar]

They manifestly do, they want control over that perception. It's just that they believe they can still control that through marketing.