Apple Moving Forward On Location-Based Disabling Of iPhone Cameras
Via PetaPixel
Using your mobile device to take pictures of or film police, or a protest, or corporate property (or Mitt Romney speaking in a private meeting to his campaign donors) may become a relic of the past. Apple has patented its “geofencing” technology — in which camera/video phone functions will be remotely disarmed in particular locations.
The Golden Ratio is all around us.
You would all be surprised how easy it would be for anyone to install a remote screen share software on you computer and see everything that’s on your computer screen live without you even knowing about it. Entering a credit card number, typing a personal email, whatever, they see it all. It’s very very easy. I have to believe there are tons of people taking advantage of this as we speak.
Apple has removed an iPhone app called Phone Story — a darkly satirical mini-game collection that exposes the ugly side of smartphone production — from the App Store, perhaps after realizing that the subject matter hit a little close to home.
“I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it,” said the boy surnamed Zheng in Huaishan City. “A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan.”
