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In the Network collect signatures against technology Apple to remotely disable iPhone camera

Users on the Network organized a petition against the new Apple technologies, allowing to stop illegal photo and video with your iPhone. The intent of the engineers of the company, the smartphones will be able to accept control signals and to block photography or video recording on the iPhone in certain situations, such as at a concert or in a Museum. According to Care2 activists, this technology can be applied not only good, but also to prevent video recording of criminal acts.

“Let’s say you walk down the street and see the police used excessive force during the arrest of a woman. One has her face on the ground, the other knee presses into her back. You pull out a smartphone to capture their actions on video, but the camera of your device suddenly mysteriously shut down,” reads the statement of the activists.

Petition for Apple to abandon this development is posted on the website Care2. At the moment it was signed by about 15 000 people.

In its patent, Apple described the technology for the iPhone, which will allow the devices to accept control signals in the infrared range. Getting into the camera lens of the mobile device, the infrared control signals will control its individual functions. In particular, if the user came to the concert, where it is forbidden to photograph and shoot video of the speakers, the smartphone will not allow to do so.

Users fear that the infrared sensors will be used not so much to protect intellectual property, how much to conceal important evidence.

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