Police Now Can Switch off iPhone Camera and Wi-Fi

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/19/police-now-can-switch-off-iphone-camera-and-wi-fi/




Police throughout the globe have been embarrassed to see online videos of their officers pepper spraying tied captives. In our age of mobile gadgets the pictures can be uploaded online in seconds, making supervisors to answer the questions.

But now the police may not need to fear scrutiny anymore, because Apple has recently patented a piece of technology that would allow the authorities and police to block data transmission, including video and photos, whenever they like. All they need to do is decide that a public gathering or venue is deemed “sensitive” and needs to be protected from externalities. In this case Apple will enable them to switch off all its gear. The developers insist that the affected locations are normally cinemas, theaters and concert grounds, but Apple admits it could also be used in covert police or government operations that may need complete “blackout” conditions.

In the meantime, privacy outfits point out that it could also be used to prevent such whistle blowers as Edward Snowden from shooting pictures and sharing them online. In response, Apple claimed that the wireless transmission of sensitive data to a remote source is a threat to security, with the sensitive data being anything from classified government data to answers to an exam administered in an academic setting.

Anyway, the fact is that Apple has patented the means to transmit an encoded signal to all wireless gadgets, commanding them to disable recording functions. The developers reveal that the policies would be activated by GPS, and Wi-Fi or mobile base-stations that would ring-fence around a building or a sensitive area in order to prevent mobile cameras from taking pictures or recording video.

 

Apple.

Wow apple is helping with censorship. Government pockets must have very deep piles of money.

 

Fuck apple

 

So you need to keep those old old pre wap phones, record ur footage and upload via sd.
lol

 

I've been saying that for years!

 

And just like that I'm Android for life. Beware the assholes who don't make tech open source

 

I'm quite sure android will implement the very same tech.

 

Android is open source the user can tamper with the OS so it wouldn't be nearly as easy. Iphone on the other hand truly is a blight on humanity in my opinion.

 

true true

hated apple since they tried to kill Flash

This technology is a real affront tho. Cops should not have the power to disable recording of their activities

The only use for this will be to cover up the worst kind of crime - state sponsored

 

While I don't agree with apples programming choice here...it's a misconception that everything apple is closed source.
Their whole entire OS is based on an open sources program design.

And if apple hasn't thought of it first (the cutting recording devices) Microsoft would have.
And once it becomes standard it's used across all platforms.

Your beloved android?
Good luck recording the popo kicking peoples ass with it once they inpliment the new standard.

 

I love girls who can tech talk :smt054

Me...I got nothin in this dept...it's all foreign to me. Maybe someday I'll learn, just to shock the heck out of someone

 

Open source my ass.Then why does everything require a jailbreak with that phone to do things you can just freely do with an Android phone.

 

me too

 

Like?

And I didn't specifically say the iOS was open sourced.
The operating system is from an open sourced model.

 

Like make the songs I purchase my damn ringtone or transferring files to any computer I like without all the proprietary bs. I get a corporation wants to make money but apple wants to own your damn soul its sickening.
Don't get me wrong no one makes an ios as intuitive and fun to use as the ios for the computers but for the price I shouldn't be shackled to them like a slave ship.

 

This article's a fake. It's also highly unlikely they ever would use Wi-fi, or GPS for such a technology. Also, if it were the police or theaters generating the signal, chances are someone could easily decrypt / copy it and start a phone disabling spree.

Police already have a method of dealing with little toys they don't like, they take it and don't give it back.

 

I won't pretend to be an expert on Google's politics, but they don't seem to be the type of company who would endorse this kind of control.

Samsung, Microsoft? Probably.

But if such a thing were to happen, I'm sure Android would be one of the last to implemented with it.

 

lol you definitely are from NY aren't you lol

 

All this happening under the black president.

I tell people all the time..

we don't have a black president....those rich white boys on WALL STREET have a black president.

 

Actually Wall Street has seen MUCH higher scrutiny and regulation under Obama...


With passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010, President Barack Obama went a long way toward fulfilling his pledge to regulate oil trading and "increase transparency” in the market.

The sweeping financial reform is known as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The law created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and directed the bureau to write new disclosure standards for financial products, including mortgages.

The text of the law says the bureau "prescribes rules to ensure that the features of any consumer financial product or service, both initially and over the term of the product or service, are fully, accurately, and effectively disclosed to consumers in a manner that permits consumers to understand the costs, benefits, and risks associated with the product or service, in light of the facts and circumstances.”