{"id":2649,"date":"2016-07-01T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2015-07-01T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T12:58:00","slug":"apple-patents-technology-enabling-police-prevent-filming-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/apple-patents-technology-enabling-police-prevent-filming-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple patents technology enabling police to prevent iPhones from filming police abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it\u2019s seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. The intention is to prevent recording concerts, but once the technology exists, it will also be used by authorities who don\u2019t want police violence and abuse of power documented by members of the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It's fascinating how some industry players keep eroding the property rights that are not just vital to the economy, but to the notion of running the software we want, in the way we want, on the hardware we own. If it weren't for owning hardware, free software \u2013 including cryptography and anonymization \u2013 would not work, as Hollywood would own your hardware, something they have tried for decades. We would not have VPNs, we would not have Tor, we would not have strong encryption. We would basically just have pay-as-you-go Disney Channel.<\/p>\n<p>It's this game Apple is playing with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/17621-apple-s-patent-could-finally-put-a-stop-to-iphone-concert-photography\">latest invention<\/a>, which uses something akin to an infrared strobe light \u2013 apparently, not unlike the devices that give emergency vehicles green lights at intersections \u2013 to prevent a mobile phone from recording what it sees. The idea is to prevent people from recording concerts \u2013 from using their own hardware to run the software they want on it, in violation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.en.html\">Zeroeth Principle of Free Software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/screenshot-2016-06-28-175225png-300x202.png\" alt=\"Image from Apple's patent application\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/screenshot-2016-06-28-175225png-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/screenshot-2016-06-28-175225png-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/screenshot-2016-06-28-175225png-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/screenshot-2016-06-28-175225png-446x300.png 446w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/screenshot-2016-06-28-175225png.png 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, it doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to realize that there are a lot of legitimate uses for filming with a mobile camera where the subject <em>does not want<\/em> to be filmed. Most of them have to do with accountability of some kind. And now, if this technology is implemented, Apple is giving all those people a way to prevent being documented abusing their power \u2013 sometimes abusing their power violently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Journalism, by definition, is publishing something that somebody doesn\u2019t want to be published. Everything else is just PR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s going to take at most three months before Chinese-manufactured belt-clip devices would be available that mimicked this infrared strobery, and therefore shut down any and all cameras seeing them in frame. At this point, police officers who do not want to be filmed by the public \u2013 as police unions have argued time and again they don\u2019t want to be filmed \u2013 will have a way to override cameras pointed at them, merely by wearing a discreet device on their belt. This is a step twenty years <em>backward<\/em> in accountability and freedom of information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As a final note,<\/strong> it is fascinating how the copyright industry always and consistently finds itself arguing for the same ways and means as do dictatorships and tyrannies. The copyright industry argued strongly in favor of European data retention and mass surveillance, in favor of private access to mass surveillance data, in favor of censorship, et cetera \u2013 and now, the needs of the copyright industry are used to justify creating something that prevents holding authorities accountable for violent abuse. Why is the copyright industry always, consistently, on the side opposing human liberty and favoring governmental oppression?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it\u2019s seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. The intention is to prevent recording concerts, but once the technology exists, it will also be used by authorities who don\u2019t want police violence and abuse of power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/apple-patents-technology-enabling-police-prevent-filming-abuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple patents technology enabling police to prevent iPhones from filming police abuse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,12,130],"tags":[101,100],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-security","category-governments","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apple patents technology enabling police to prevent iPhones from filming police abuse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it&#039;s seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. 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