Apple patents tech to block your phones camera

Posted by mungoid on Thursday June 30, 2016 @04:27PM
from the patentlyapple.com dept.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/06/apple-wins-a-patent-for-an-infrared-camera-system-that-originally-caused-some-controversy.html

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Re:Apple patents tech to block your phones camera by labrador on Thursday June 30, 2016 @04:47PM (#12011524)

It amazes me that Apple gets away with being a user hostile company and users love them anyway (Stockholm syndrome) or because of it (masochists.) Full control of your camera? Surely you must be joking. Analog headphone jack? You don't need that, go buy a new set of headphones or an adapter.

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Re:Apple patents tech to block your phones camera by jonpaine on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:50PM (#12012070)

Neither of those two features have been released by Apple.

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Re:Apple patents tech to block your phones camera by tdkl on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:58PM (#12012134)

One is coming in the fall.

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Re:Apple patents tech to block your phones camera by lolc on Thursday June 30, 2016 @06:52PM (#12012479)

So if I don't want to be recorded in public I just carry one of these IR transmitters? This is fun.

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Re:Apple patents tech to block your phones camera by ank_the_elder on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:50PM (#12013756)

What would prevent me from putting a simple IR filter in front of my phone?

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Re:Apple patents tech to block your phones camera by hiven on Thursday June 30, 2016 @05:08PM (#12011734)

I wonder what happens if you turn on airplane mode.

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