New Apple Technology Could Disable Your Camera During Concerts

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New Apple Technology Could Disable Your Camera During Concerts

BY CHRIS MENCH


Chris Mench is a writer living in New Jersey. Follow him @Chris_Mench.


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  Apple's newest patent has huge implications for both concert goers and privacy advocates. An article from Patently Apple, which reports on Apple's patent filings, points out that the company recently patented technology allowing the temporary disabling of iPhone cameras within certain areas. It's purported as a way to stop people from taking bootleg video or photos at places where it might be prohibited, like a concert or museum.
  
  
  
  
  
  The technology works using infrared signals. The idea is that a concert venue or museum would activate a transmitter, which would communicate with an iPhone that was pointed at it and disable its camera, stopping the phone from taking a picture or video at that moment. It could also be used to insert a watermark onto the image, blur it out, or otherwise alter it before its even been taken.
  
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  Realistically, there is no current evidence that Apple actually plans to use this technology. The company files hundreds of patents each year, and very few of them actually end up in commercial use. Nonetheless, the move is an interesting one, especially in light of Apple'srecent stand for privacy rights. It would seem that a signal to block photo or video taking across the board wouldn't quite gel with the company's rhetoric about the need to protect people's smartphones from outside influence. Then again, it would be pretty great to go to a concert without having to deal with a thousand phone screens in your line of site.
  
  You can read more about Apple's patent filing here.
  
  
• New Apple Technology Could Disable Your Camera During Concerts

 

[Unknown Poster]

 

[Hades]

That would be dope for personal use if you gettin' loose at a spot and don't want it blown up on Snap, IG, Twitter and the 'book.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Buy an iPhone bruh's.........

 

[Mr.Plan B]

Great idea.

 

[Tunez]

Horrible idea

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

This shyt is old. Iphones are going out of style though. I'm myself moving to the Samsung S7 Edge. Getting that and a Gear S2 3G

 

[50CentStan]

Apple stans Lost. DROID GANG GANG GANG

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Great idea.

.....

 

[Citi Trends]

thats awful

 

[Doobie Doo]

I'm curious to know the legalities behind this. I understand the bootlegging part but isn't there some sort of emergency instance where a camera may be needed for documenting something and can't because it's disabled?

 

[ORDER_66]

Great idea.

To Disable your personal phone video during a music concert?!!?!? So you CANT capture the memories.... that's a good idea.... Wow you apple fanboys are a fukking trip...

Who knows what else they are gonna disable in your phone in the future.... They already took away your headphone jack forcing you to buy wireless headsets... next thing you know they will charge you a fee to use the camera making youtube videos...

 

[concise]

That would be dope for personal use if you gettin' loose at a spot and don't want it blown up on Snap, IG, Twitter and the 'book.

This will probably be what this will wind up being used for more.

 

[killacal]

That would be dope for personal use if you gettin' loose at a spot and don't want it blown up on Snap, IG, Twitter and the 'book.

Everyone doesn't have an iPhone so what's your point?

 

[ORDER_66]

This will probably be what this will wind up being used for more.

Bullshyt... if you dont want it recorded then maybe you should be able to hold your fukking liquor or drink in private...

Besides hidden cameras are everywhere and they don't have to be apple's...