Apple patent could remotely disable protesters' phone cameras

[krispos42]

17. Yet.

If it comes to fruition that wireless carriers can sell, rent, or lease some sort of beacon that instructs smartphones to not send or receive data, nor to record images or audio, within range of the beacon, then this will most surely be used by the police to enforce a media blackout.

It does not matter the original intent… keeping phones quiet during movies or college classes or weddings or funerals or church…

You protest, the police will cut off the ability of the protesters to communicate just before taking action.

Remember how often the news helicopters vanished during the OWS protests just before the police moved in?