So ..... don't buy it.
Free will, free market, feedback-poor sales, product changes.
Don't buy anything you don't approve of just because your child wants to be fashionable.
Consumerism .... Yechh!

Twelve years ago I was working on a device that had a camera pointed at the user at all times. We had to put a shudder that would drop in front of the lens when the camera was off b/c the company developing it thought no one would tolerate a camera staring right at you all day, even if it had an LED indicator.

In twelve more years, people will find it quaint that found it creepy. People will have microphones running processing every word all the time in case they have a question to ask their computer.

Privacy is gone, and that is dangerous.

when one could be assured the information would stay in the hands of a company, I trusted that much more. For instance my local grocery store having a savings card. But the courts have backed the government's intrusion into the privacy of its citizens. so, yes, it's creepy.