Apple granted patent for location-based camera phone disabling – Boing Boing

I imagine movie theaters would be the first to use this remote disabling feature (if Apple ever decides to move ahead with this technology; just because they have a patent doesn’t mean they’ll use it). The paranoid side of me imagines governments using it to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests.

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  1. Dave Walker

    I’ll have to take a look at this; I’m fascinated to know the nature of the command / control channel (and the authentication mechanism for it) that selectively modifies iThing operation based on neither user configuration nor Apple Configurator configuration.

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