[dijit]

Other way around.

If you root your phone and disable its ability to spy on you then that’s obviously against the desired effect. The whole point of the hash scanning is that, you, the user, cannot disable it.

Meaning there would probably be laws to force us not to tamper with that functionality.

Similar to how printer manufacturers have to look for “the yellow dots” on bank notes and refuse to print/scan.

[withinboredom]

I imagine there will be a class action suit to get it disabled on the basis that it costs me money (even if a small amount, it adds up), with no way to turn it off and it literally can do nothing good for you. In the worst case it puts you in jail for something you didn’t do and in the best case, it costs you money.