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contents without its user's consent or a lawful order.","Install monitoring software on another person's phone or bypass its activation lock.","Track a person through the phone's location services without consent or legal basis.","Give feature or security information from one model and software version as true of another."],"requiresHuman":["Erasing or locking a device reported lost or stolen.","Accessing the phone of a person who has died or cannot consent."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["The phone holds a person's messages, photos, health and location; access to it is access to the person.","Repair restrictions and short support lives raise questions of fairness and electronic waste."],"affectedParties":["The phone's user","People in the user's contacts and photos","Repairers and recyclers"]},"owners":{"steward":"The person who uses it; the manufacturer holds the device and account records and the network operator the subscription.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Device registries such 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