[pasbesoin]

This is tangential, or only a part, of the current tracking concern. But the accelerometer in my 2013 Nexus 7 died, perhaps after a relatively minor blow it took when I was taking it out of its storage space and mis-judged clearance. (Accelerometer death is a known issue for this model.)

That doesn't fix the GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth logging, nor the screen activity tracking, but it does "fix" the tracking of how I hold it, move it around my person, and so on.

Maybe we will be taking to deliberately, physically crippling our devices, to keep their overlords from "observing" our every moment and action. We already tape over our cameras...

In a more sane -- for me -- world, I'd have controls to turn this crap off. Not / no longer being very trusting, I'd have physical controls.

Instead, science fiction is again becoming reality, where we will seek out device and tech "gurus" to kill the malicious functionality in our "own" devices.