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Re:We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps by izacus on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:50AM (#13408873)
Why would it be illegal to look at code on your own device and see what kind of personal data your device sends to companies?
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Re:We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps by jmiserez on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:32AM (#13409026)
I was thinking along the lines of something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

If the app uses DRM (e.g. Netflix), I would imagine that some of these laws could apply depending on the country, right?

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