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Apple Continues to work on Smart Cameras (RFID) for Future Devices

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On January 24, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a possible next chapter for Apple's iDevice cameras. In 2011 we posted a controversial patent report titled "Apple working on a Sophisticated Infrared System for iOS Cameras." The report covered how future iDevices could be used as an auto tour guide in a museum and how infrared technology would be able to shut off a future iDevice camera at live events. Today's patent is in that same vein as it focuses on how future iDevice cameras will be able to identify objects such as a paintin

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Apple is working on "smart cameras" and plan to equip the iphone 6 with RFID (radio-frequency identification). This gives us a glimpse of an (in my opinion) ominous future in which every citizen carries around the technology of a spy, enabled to take a peek into the events in private apartments, offices, cars and anywhere else they desire to peer. As if our privacy hasnt already been decimated with Google, Webcams, CCV, Geo-Positioning, etc. the next generation of "new media" plans an all-in assault on our private spaces.

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reply to post by Skyfloating

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never liked a phone I could not remove the battery from. If it cant be turned off...I dont want it.

Originally posted by zedVSzardoz
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never liked a phone I could not remove the battery from. If it cant be turned off...I dont want it.

Well of course you can always wrap it in aluminum foil when you want privacy

Seriously, that's simple and hard to defeat.

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And Samsung / Google android is no different

If this surprises anyone, then that surprises me....

Just look at the "next-gen" devices that Google is working on. They already possess a software based technology similar to what is described in this article. It's called Goggles, and it's an app that allows you to "search" via a picture, which is essentially object recognition.

Couple that with Google GLASS, the hardware needed to achieve an "always on" imaging device, and viola, who needs eyes in the sky, when you have always on cameras on every head around the world. The only thing stopping them from utilizing such a surveillance program now is that most people keep that "imaging device", our smartphones, in their pockets, but even then, we all know that if Big Brother wanted to use your smartphone to spy on something, they easily have the power to do so. Hell, they're already experimenting with it: www.technologyreview.com...

Now all that being said, IMHO this is where technology is going. Everyone already has their faces buried in smartphones/computers most of the day, myself included. The future extension of that is to have an always-on computer wrapped around your face/eyes. Technology can be both good and bad though....Sure I don't believe with widespread surveillance using consumer technologies, but Augmented Reality is definitely something that could further the causes of the human race, in my opinion.

I'll leave you with one more thing to consider, the NSA, arguably the most techno-savvy surveillance agency in the world, is working on a $2 Billion dollar MASSIVE Data center in Utah. Anyone wonder what they need all that data storage/processing power for?

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reply to post by Skyfloating

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2 issues I immediately see here.

1. If people don't want to be spied on, they should not by the tech that allows it

2. People are basically too stupid uninformed to even understand it is going on, much less how to avoid it.

"Getting the word out" does not work for people like us, the so called "Fringe Element" as most of what we try and inform people of is brushed aside as folly.

The government control of our everyday lives is steady marching on

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Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I wish the world understood the fact that they are the mice.

Originally posted by Skyfloating


Apple is working on "smart cameras" and plan to equip the iphone 5 with RFID (radio-frequency identification). This gives us a glimpse of an (in my opinion) ominous future in which every citizen carries around the technology of a spy, enabled to take a peek into the events in private apartments, offices, cars and anywhere else they desire to peer. As if our privacy hasnt already been decimated with Google, Webcams, CCV, Geo-Positioning, etc. the next generation of "new media" plans an all-in assault on our private spaces.

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This is just a tiny correction--but the iPhone 5 is already out. So you must be talking about the 6.

App developers I know fall into 2 categories: 1) Those who have these smartphones 2) Those who choose not to have them.

The people who know how these smartphones work know that they are tracking devices, pure and simple. The difference between the people who keep the phones and those who don't is generally based on the fact that the ones who don't keep them know WHY these are tracking devices: Government requires it.

But don't take just his word for it.

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Apple is working on "smart cameras" and plan to equip the iphone 5 with RFID (radio-frequency identification). This gives us a glimpse of an (in my opinion) ominous future in which every citizen carries around the technology of a spy, enabled to take a peek into the events in private apartments, offices, cars and anywhere else they desire to peer

While the object identification itself is a bit ominous, you shouldn't worry too much about the RFID aspect. RFID readers only pick up signals that are specifically being broadcast to them (the museum example). This technology would not allow someone to spy on you personally, unless you own things that broadcast RFID signals.

I'd my more worried about the object ID and history (i.e. you just passed the same car that cut you off a few months ago)

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I've seen this coming for a couple of years now. I've mentioned it numerous times on ATS. I'm surprised Google isn't doing the same thing. (Or are they?) We already tie in GPS coordinates when we take a picture, with the date and time it was taken. This is of course tied to your IMEI number of your phone. So if you see something and share that image, everyone knows exactly where it was taken with a little know how. (And this is partially true on all cameras minus the GPS locations.)

Google's "Project Glass" (the glasses with a small computer and camera built in) is something that scares me a hundred times more then the article you posted. Everyone (heck, even my grandma) has a phone with a built in camera. Which means, any time they want they can take a picture with something they always have on them. Now, think about something that continually scans and records data. That's what Google's Project Glass does. And it's connected via wireless at all times.

In theory, it means that someone somewhere (i.e. Google) knows where you are, who you hang out with and what you're doing just because you've decided that Google's glasses are neat and something you'd like to wear. Heck, even innocent passerby's are recorded.

It's just scary, everyone and everything will constantly be under surveillance and we're the ones doing the surveillance!

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