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Do you think there will be a future where your phone can automatically detect if you are trying to record police activity and disables your camera? What do you think the odds of this happening is? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I remember a while back Apple filed a patent that allows concerts to disable iPhones cameras if a certain signal is emitted from the stage. Apple never implemented this, but my pessemistic ass always try to think of worse case scenarios, like being used by government. Do you think this could occur in the future?

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36672001

You can search "Apple Concert Disable Camera" and find more about it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe that eventually in the future it might become a "war" between the police having some form of device on them that prevents a phone from even being able to be turned on within a large radius, let alone being able to record audio/video, and those trying to record such acts. If anything, it might also turn into a thing of people turning to creative and innovative ways to get around that technology in that potential future and the police responding with updates that make whatever we use to counter absolutely meaningless.

It might turn into a thing - if it happens/becomes reality - that the vast majority people get used to it, similar to how in Japan, phones made specially for their market are required to have a sound go off when the camera is used. That's a future we don't want or need.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My one hope is that police departments (being bureaucratic organizations) might be so slow to update to the latest camera-disabling hardware / software they they may turn out consistently one step behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will absolutely use this as a way to grub for money. It's early, so I can't think of how exactly they would spin this as a public safety need, but I'm sure there is a way they will twist it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I can imagine those "support our police officers!" charities mailing out some nonsense like,

Officers are being surveiled and monitored by foreign secret agents, MS-13, and Soros-backed Antifa groups!

This puts our officers in danger and disrupts their attempts to serve our community. To root out crime and ensure officers' safety, we need people like you to donate so selfless officers can afford countermeasures that protect them from this dangerous surveillance.