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That is one of the more shortsighted laws I have ever read. Or farsighted, depending on your cynicism about surveillance.

I wonder if I generate a UUID on your phone in my app, if you delete the app data does that run afoul of this law?

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I think it's really about the IMEI on stolen phones, rather than anything else. And it's in the UK, where there are differences in legal procedure to US. But the DMCA is supposed to be about copyright protection and yet it's being used to keep phones locked to a carrier, so laws with unintended consequences are worrying.

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