[gnfurlong]

If you want to buy my house, sure. You're free to look at anything you want once you own it. It's yours.

What's not okay is for me to build a house and add recording devices all around and then sell it to you without informing you. Using your house example, that's the most direct comparison and would 100% be illegal.

There's obviously a trade off most users are willing to make between privacy and functionality, but I do believe the exchange should be 100% in the open and a conscious decision made by the user.

[BoorishBears]

In this specific case it’s like I install recording devices... that locally search for faces to turn the lights on to each occupants preferred brightness.

It looks like it’s a convenience app for transportation.

I’m an Android developer and nothing mentioned is suspicious or obfuscated.

In fact, the fact he can get that list of functions he posted means they used less obfuscation than normal (they didn’t do the equivalent of minifying with Proguard, which most devs would say all production apps should)

The use of multiple services makes perfect sense, one app manages background communication instead of dozens of service apps making network calls when they feel like it (bad for battery life since the radio is always in a high power state).

I think this is a bit of an overreaction in this case.

[newnewpdro]

The horrifying thing about your example is you've basically described a "smart home" and we're fast approaching an era where anyone purchasing a home will expect it to be rife with third-party cameras and listening devices, and pay a premium for it.