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Under which provision would this be illegal though? It's the operating system image Facebook can get by just buying the exact same model of phone the user owns. I'm having trouble finding under which definition of GDPR managed personal data does this fall over.

The only angle I see is copyright infringement for copying libraries owned by the phone manufacturer... but even that I'm not sure if it's really illegal in this case. Worth filing a complaint anyway I guess.

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