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backscatter712

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7. That's what it was originally for.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 08:54 AM

Aug 2013

To keep people from taking vids of movies at the movie theater, or illicitly taking videos of concerts.

Of course, do these kinds of laws remain within the limits of their originally intended uses?

No, if these "features" are forced into smartphones and cameras, they're going to be used to block filming at protests, and keep people from taking videos of police, and so on.

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Apple patent could remotely disable protesters' phone cameras [View all] KamaAina Aug 2013 OP

Article from a year ago. Note date. Google, Samsung, Microsoft and Blackberry have similar patents. onehandle Aug 2013 #1

Yet. krispos42 Aug 2013 #17

How convenient for authoritarians. woo me with science Aug 2013 #2

That's true for almost everything we (the US) spend our money on. kentauros Aug 2013 #8

See, that mindset is the problem, IMO Recursion Aug 2013 #10

However, kentauros Aug 2013 #11

Thank you, citizen Marat... Recursion Aug 2013 #13

So, not killing people and spending our money on progressive things kentauros Aug 2013 #14

I was referring to what happens when well meaning people start fretting Recursion Aug 2013 #15

Okay, but I wasn't talking about that. kentauros Aug 2013 #16

It's an interesting argument. Robb Aug 2013 #3

First Amendment shut off feature. Octafish Aug 2013 #4

An old article, but Heywood J Aug 2013 #5

I think it would be more likely used to shut down MineralMan Aug 2013 #6

That's what it was originally for. backscatter712 Aug 2013 #7

That's Already Happening... KharmaTrain Aug 2013 #18

So, don't take that kind of camera to a protest. kentauros Aug 2013 #9

I blame Michael Faraday Recursion Aug 2013 #12