ICensor: Apple Patents Remote ‘Kill Switch’ For IPhone Cameras

‘Owning an iPhone could someday mean being blocked from recording anything that someone in power doesn’t want you to record.
That’s the potential ramification of a patent granted to Apple earlier this week for technology that remotely disables iPhone cameras by infrared sensors.
While Apple’s patent application uses the example of a rock band preventing audience members from recording a concert, since the application was first submitted back in 2009 observers have noted that the technology could also be used by police, repressive governments, and anyone in power to stop citizens from recording abuses of power and other injustices.’
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