[Xylakant]

More importantly, requiring a software upgrade to enable that functionality would make it obvious that this is indeed of questionable legality and limit the market. Many people buying these watches (or the children dolls affected by the last round of bans) are not aware that these are in fact hidden spying devices.

[blattimwind]

Technically its not a ban of specific merchandise, since they were already illegal. Its more like, say, a police raid against an arms dealer (=> thats not an arms ban).