Should Apple use tech to control when features work and when?

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"If Apple creates a way for third parties to control when certain iPhone features work, how will Apple control who has access to that technology? It’s not hard to imagine a government such as Turkey or Russia using it to blackout social media coverage of a protest.

Or better yet, when US speaker of the House Paul Ryan turns off all of the television camera’s in the House chamber?

Last week’s sit-in originally began as an effort by Democrats to hold the floor of the US House to tell Americans about why people who are on the government’s controversial no-fly list – shorthand for possible terrorism links – also shouldn’t be allowed to buy guns.

Ryan, in a moment of both real and digital politick, threw the House into recess and shut down the video feed from the broadcast cameras in the chamber. The cable channel C-Span uses the cameras to broadcast (often boring) unedited footage from the capitol."

Democrats used this technology when they realized the cameras were dark.


http://www.activistpost.com/2016/06/icensor-apple-patents-remote-kill-switch-for-iphone-cameras.html

This article is linked within this activist post article from The Guardian.