{"id":172804,"date":"2016-07-21T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=172804"},"modified":"2016-07-21T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:10:55","slug":"iphone-users-beg-apple-not-to-use-camera-jamming-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/172804-iphone-users-beg-apple-not-to-use-camera-jamming-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone users beg Apple not to use camera-jamming tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 11,000 people have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/687\/221\/156\/tell-apple-dont-allow-police-to-remotely-disable-iphone-cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\">signed a\u00a0petition<\/a><\/strong> asking Apple not to include technology\u00a0it patented that would allow the cameras on its devices to be jammed.<\/p>\n<p>The patent, called &#8220;Systems and methods for receiving infrared data with a camera designed to detect images based on visible light&#8221;, was awarded to Apple on 28 June.<\/p>\n<p>It should\u00a0be noted that Apple\u00a0has not stated it intends to use the patented technology.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0technology could be used to\u00a0respect people&#8217;s privacy or\u00a0discourage concert-goers from holding up their phone\u00a0during a performance.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners have warned that the technology could be abused by governments to\u00a0censor political dissidents, activists, and citizens who are recording police brutality.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apple<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/172762-pokemon-go-could-make-apple-3-billion.html\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Go could make Apple billion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/172520-big-problem-with-apple-music-being-fixed.html\"><strong>Big problem with Apple Music being fixed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/171049-how-to-fix-an-iphone-in-south-africa-for-much-cheaper-than-apple-can.html\"><strong>How to fix an iPhone in South Africa for much cheaper than Apple can<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/171079-apple-may-finally-fix-the-iphones-biggest-problem.html\"><strong>Apple may finally fix the iPhone\u2019s biggest problem<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/170713-how-the-apple-iphone-has-changed-over-the-past-9-years-photos.html\"><strong>How the Apple iPhone has changed over the past 9 years \u2013 photos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers are pleading with Apple not to include infrared camera-jamming technology in its new devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,605,16546,1125],"class_list":["post-172804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-celljamming","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172818,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172804\/revisions\/172818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}