Comment by xg15

Not a lawyer, but seems to me the term "strictly necessary and proportionate" is doing a lot of work here.

I could imagine lobbyists have been trying to do a classic motte-and-bailey there, painting the picture of some poor granny whose phone is instantly taken over by a malicious third party app, because without Google's loving oversight, every dodgy candy crush clone would of course immediately get root and bootloader access.

So they managed to get in a "common sense" exception, which they're now trying to use for things that are entirely not common sense.

At least I would find it hard to argue that a measure is "strictly necessary" to ensure the "integrity of the hardware or operating system" if everything has been working without problems for decades without this measure.