“There was no end-user-facing way of factory-resetting the device, making the logs effectively permanent.”
The $200 Rabbit R1 is an Android 13 app in kiosk mode, with no local AI and an API a small Python script can replace. It logged precise GPS locations, nearby cell tower IDs, the user’s auth token and MP3s of everything it ever said, with no factory reset, on a device people dump on eBay. Rabbit added a reset option while the post was being written. It still ships closed-source drivers statically linked into a GPL kernel and publishes no source. Rabbit respects user data and the GPL in equal measure.