Apple Creating Technology To Help Cops Hide Police Brutality

More insanity from Corporatist Police State, USSA.
siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 9:27am PDT - promote requested by original submitter blankfist.

radxsays...

Well, if you let yourself get hooked on proprietary hard-/software, you willingly surrender control over your devices.

Just wait until TPM 2.0, the most fucked-up hardware development of this young millenium, hits the market in force.

song77says...

"If you really want to piss of a police officer the best way to do it is take out your smart phone"
Smart move, why would u want to piss of the police

chingalerajokingly says...

They're mostly already pissed-off mostly, it's simply not wise to agitate them to some unreasonably hind-brained level. What are cops if not the brightest bulbs in the mine shaft, eh?

song77said:

"If you really want to piss of a police officer the best way to do it is take out your smart phone"
Smart move, why would u want to piss of the police

deathcowsays...

OMG will this be retroactive and affect all my old cameras !!! no? OK
OMG will I be forced to buy one of these shitty crippled new cameras!!!! no? OK

What's with the TYT chick at home vid? too hot for the office now?

kevingrrsays...

Yawn. This was reported as early as November of 2012. It gets on reddit a week ago and now you care?

Apple has a patent for this. They have LOTS of patents.

When they decide to actually include this in their hardware...you can choose to not buy it or protest it.

I hate TYT and all their ilk. It's alarmist non-substantive reporting. I would love to see real journalism outside of the mainstream garbage take off, but this isn't it.

shatterdrosesays...

Sorry, another one:

http://rt.com/news/apple-patent-transmission-block-408/

Publish a year ago and is the source of the Guardian article.

As I suspected, this is old news. Plus, the technology wasn't designed as a way for Big Brother to shut down the little man. The concept of movie theaters turning off phone service has been asked for for a long time by theaters to prevent texting and cell phone use during movies. Same thing with schools. Weddings, well, let's just say The Guardian made me laugh when they implied it was all about "national security." It's actually getting more popular for brides to tell people to not use their phone while they're walking down the aisle and such.

kevingrrsays...

@shatterdose

I completely agree with you. Per usual this is TYT and similar news agencies having a slow day and finding a way to get their viewers mouths frothing.

They take the same video clips they use in half their reports, splice in some commentary, and rack up the views.

siftbotsays...

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entr0pysays...

I don't know, the idea that Apple has some plans to remotely lock down their phones doesn't make me want to blow anyone up, it just makes me not want to buy an iPhone. But everyone takes the news differently.

articiansaid:

USA! Creating more terrorists every day!

Yogisays...

Wait you have to buy it? I thought they could turn your phone off somehow. If it's something YOU put on yourself than yeah this isn't an issue, just don't download it. If it's something that the police can do to your phone though, than it's a problem.

kevingrrsaid:

Yawn. This was reported as early as November of 2012. It gets on reddit a week ago and now you care?

Apple has a patent for this. They have LOTS of patents.

When they decide to actually include this in their hardware...you can choose to not buy it or protest it.

I hate TYT and all their ilk. It's alarmist non-substantive reporting. I would love to see real journalism outside of the mainstream garbage take off, but this isn't it.

chingalerasays...

@kevingrr, Thank You. I have been decrying the schlock of TYT as long as these embeds started appearing on the VS maybe 4 years ago?? The lapdog fanatics here clam the fuck up whenever I suggest their being duped-out of the meat of what's news as they trade the protein of meaning for smarmy, snipeish, sub-standard infotainment that strokes their programmed sensibilities.

Compare TYT to Fox News, simply insert banter that "feels" and "sounds" better to the critical-thinking-challenged ineffectual and, "Voila, let's call it bad drugs disguised as political commentary."

Sagemindsays...

Although Wal•Mart still Denies using similar technologies to black Cell phone usage in their stores, I know that in Canada, this tampering with Pubic Airwaves and purposeful Cell interruption is Illegal in Canada.
So, even once the technology is developed, they will still need to have laws changes in order to allow them to use it.

newtboysays...

As I understood it, that technology stops cell phone use (as a phone or text device), not the other functions of your phone. That would make this something new (at least to me) in that it's something embedded in the device that allows others to disable all features based on a GPS 'area', so there's no device involved that blocks the signal (meaning it might fly in Canada because it doesn't interfere with airwaves or (perhaps) cell interruption (I can't tell if this will disable the 'phone' part of the phone or not).
What they were working on for movie theaters and the like actually blocked the signal, not the phone itself, with a separate device installed in the area they want to be a dead zone. It would not have interfered with taking video.
Agreed though, TYT is well known for getting irate over year old stories.
This sounds like a perfect reason to not buy Apple.

shatterdrosesaid:

Sorry, another one:

http://rt.com/news/apple-patent-transmission-block-408/

Publish a year ago and is the source of the Guardian article.

As I suspected, this is old news. Plus, the technology wasn't designed as a way for Big Brother to shut down the little man. The concept of movie theaters turning off phone service has been asked for for a long time by theaters to prevent texting and cell phone use during movies. Same thing with schools. Weddings, well, let's just say The Guardian made me laugh when they implied it was all about "national security." It's actually getting more popular for brides to tell people to not use their phone while they're walking down the aisle and such.

newtboysays...

Not all of us clam the fuck up, some of us semi-intelligently discuss the issue and try hard to ignore the Chingalerese, and decry you for your position that everyone (except you, or perhaps including you depending on the day?) can be ignored because we are all know nothing lapdogs of the worthless media, which logically should simply end with everyone ignoring you.
I've explained to you before exactly what your stance leads to, everyone ignoring everyone else (or at least ignoring you), and you privately agreed that it was what you do and that it's not intelligent or useful...but you continue to do it.
I'll continue to call you out on it.

chingalerasaid:

@kevingrr, Thank You. I have been decrying the schlock of TYT as long as these embeds started appearing on the VS maybe 4 years ago?? The lapdog fanatics here clam the fuck up whenever I suggest their being duped-out of the meat of what's news as they trade the protein of meaning for smarmy, snipeish, sub-standard infotainment that strokes their programmed sensibilities.

Compare TYT to Fox News, simply insert banter that "feels" and "sounds" better to the critical-thinking-challenged ineffectual and, "Voila, let's call it bad drugs disguised as political commentary."

newtboyjokingly says...

Yes, that's it, never insist on your rights as a citizen if doing so might upset the one's trying to ignore and/or remove your rights in the first place.
That kind of changes the meaning of "civil rights", doesn't it?

song77said:

"If you really want to piss of a police officer the best way to do it is take out your smart phone"
Smart move, why would u want to piss of the police

shatterdrosesays...

Yeah, if technology was designed to disable video capture so the police could domestically take liberties without any verification of their actions, I can see this being a major blow to civil liberties and social accountability.

If however, this is just a "movie theatres want this" type thing, then there's no real hype. Plus, the attempt to disable one feature in one brand in a phone, such as the iPhone, would do nothing at all to protect the corrupt officers. It just means no one will buy an iPhone.

But, this is also hype over a patent. No actual device has been made with this. And just because it is possible, doesn't mean someone is doing it. I mean, it IS possible for us to build a space ship to harvest asteroids or space elevators . . . but alas, we are sadly Earth bound for the time being.

If anything, this discussion is what leads to this technology not being implemented, but the irate and irrational discussion does nothing but hype fear that has no rational basis. Except, you know, the NSA really is wiretapping this. . . .

newtboysaid:

As I understood it, that technology stops cell phone use (as a phone or text device), not the other functions of your phone. That would make this something new (at least to me) in that it's something embedded in the device that allows others to disable all features based on a GPS 'area', so there's no device involved that blocks the signal (meaning it might fly in Canada because it doesn't interfere with airwaves or (perhaps) cell interruption (I can't tell if this will disable the 'phone' part of the phone or not).
What they were working on for movie theaters and the like actually blocked the signal, not the phone itself, with a separate device installed in the area they want to be a dead zone. It would not have interfered with taking video.
Agreed though, TYT is well known for getting irate over year old stories.
This sounds like a perfect reason to not buy Apple.

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