Posted on 08/15/2016 10:59:02 AM PDT by Lorianne
A patent granted to Apple this month details technology that remotely disables iPhone cameras using infrared sensors. Someone you do not know and cannot see will be able, without your permission, to disable the camera on a phone you own and are legally using, perhaps to take video of your son’s Little League game, perhaps to take video of a police officer choking to death an innocent man.
Apple’s patent application used the example of a rock band wanting to prevent audience members from recording a concert. Nasty bootleggers and their darn YouTubing!
While the First Amendment, backed up by much case law, guarantees the right of citizens to record the actions of government employees, including the police, conducting their duties in public places, the Amendment does not guarantee corporate America has to sell you the technology to do so. It is Constitutionally unclear if a police force using such technology to block video would violate the First Amendment (hey, you could switch over to your Dad’s camcorder that’s in the basement), but knowing the way things work, the cops would try it first, worry about court cases later.
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If they ever implement this technology into a new iPhone, no one will buy them..................
Great idea. Lots of people want to be able to go out in public without others taking pictures of them.
If you can see it with your eyes, it should be record-able. PERIOD.
I don’t care if it is a police officer during a traffic stop or a government official taking a bribe, or someone stealing a trump sign from your yard.
Trying to limit the “right to record” is like going back 200 years and forbidding anyone writing a letter or testimony of what they have witnessed in the town square.
Can’t you just tape over the IR sensor?
No, the Apple fan bois will buy the latest and newest item with an Apple logo, even if it is a brick.
Probably not. It would be incorporated into the optical sensor of the camera..............
“I don’t care if it is a police officer during a traffic stop or a government official taking a bribe, or someone stealing a trump sign from your yard. “
This is being pushed by the concert artists and movie interests.
The gov keeps traffic camera recordings for at least 6 months in the hopes of being able to use it for capturing crimes, not traffic.
I see a lot of cameras pointing into gas stations, like the traffic coming out of there matters.
How about an IR blocking filter?
Presently most have IR filters. Removing the filter would impact the image processing capabilities which may be a very expensive task to correct.
Theoretically, installing an IR filter would block the signal.
“I see a lot of cameras pointing into gas stations, like the traffic coming out of there matters.”
But then where would we get the videos of the people setting themselves on fire, hijacking and robberies...
“Lots of people want to be able to go out in public without others taking pictures of them.”
You mean lots of people who drive cars with flashy lights and who wear badges and bullet proof vests? Those people?
I don’t see how they can get away with this?
The user owns the iPhone since the paid for it and not Apple.
This type of stuff will kill the iPhone.
Our founding fathers said nothing about any special right to take pictures of other people.
That might work. Would open up a business opportunity for sure.................
Which is why Apple is no doubt already at work influencing congress to mandate this technology on every camera out there.
“Lots of people don’t want to be photographed without their permission.”
also terrorists on a shooting spree.
We can all see how this one plays out.
Android continues to make phones without cameras that can be remotely crippled.
Apple begins losing market share.
Apple and the music industry go to Washington, crying like babies and throwing fistfuls of money around town.
The Feds pass a law and/or regulations requiring ALL phone manufacturers to install this feature.
There are “shooting sprees” with guns and there are “shooting sprees” with cameras. I don’t want to outlaw guns or cameras, but I want it to remain illegal for people (I don’t object to your calling them terrorists) to point guns or cameras at innocent people without their permission.
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