It's actually great it's happened. It showed everybody that the government can install whatever they want on your phone without your consent and knowledge. In this case they decided to leave you the option to uninstall but in the future they might not and spy on you at will. Another reminder you are not the owner of your device.
Which leads to the question: if anyone powerful or wealthy enough can take total control of your phone, how comfortable do you feel with that?
There are two routes here. One way is to deal with it the European way, i.e. to try to fix it by a legal framework. The other one is a technical solution like Purism, which is very far from mainstream still. The sooner people realize they have a problem, the sooner they start organizing to find a solution.
My kids really want an oculus but I absolutely refuse to let Facebook into our house, anymore than I knowingly have to; I’m sure they’ve weaseled in other ways I don’t know about yet.
