iPhone users beg Apple not to use camera-jamming tech

[Knyro]

Conspiracy theorists will conspiracy.

It's probably got nothing to do with this and everything to do with shooting better night/dark photos.

Or advertising/metadata, point your camera at something and you get a link to a webpage as well as your picture.

 

[crackersa]

Can this feature be abused by the authorities?

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[AfricanTech]

Exactly what I was thinking.

Dictators wet dream

 

[access]

places likes airports and banks would use this tech.

I remember banks asking for cellphone jamming tech years ago.

 

[sajunky]

Apple has shown that they don't cave in to to unreasonable government requests

But they do it for private lobby groups. Very powerful, BTW.

 

[Swa]

I wouldn't attend a concert where camera's don't work. The convenience of having a camera on a mobile phone means that you can record if something goes wrong and it can be used as evidence later e.g. security staff abuse, drunk attendees, etc. There's just too much room for abuse.

There's places where photos shouldn't be taken and there's places where photos are illegal to take. We don't police the former and we have courts for the latter. This would be a major slippery slope.

But they do it for private lobby groups. Very powerful, BTW.

And this tech also would not require Apple's permission to block pictures.

 

[sajunky]

And this tech also would not require Apple's permission to block pictures.

Irrelevant. Apple got paid to allow it happen. This powerful lobby is not about moral principles. They want to control your private camera in order to protect their business. It is nothing more than business.

 

[Neoprod]

Irrelevant. Apple got paid to allow it happen. This powerful lobby is not about moral principles. They want to control your private camera in order to protect their business. It is nothing more than business.

Source?

...or should i say sauce?



I never know which one to use when the tin foil theories come out.

 

[HavocXphere]

So buy IR filter & stick it onto your phone for the concert?

 

[sajunky]

Source?

...or should i say sauce?

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I never know which one to use when the tin foil theories come out.

Defender of business lobby group calling for enforcing "moral principles" could not keep up - get destabilized.

 

[Swa]

Irrelevant. Apple got paid to allow it happen. This powerful lobby is not about moral principles. They want to control your private camera in order to protect their business. It is nothing more than business.

Yes. I was referring to JStrike's point that Apple doesn't cave in to government requests. Since the tech won't and can't distinguish between legitimate blocking it doesn't matter. Apple's decision was all about money in any case.

 

[sajunky]

Yes. I was referring to JStrike's point that Apple doesn't cave in to government requests. Since the tech won't and can't distinguish between legitimate blocking it doesn't matter. Apple's decision was all about money in any case.

Yip, you are 100% right on any issue and I didn't try to argue on that.