from octimotor
I have done photography as a hobby. The tools used then were cameras using film which after shooting would be sent somewhere for darkroom processing.
In those earlier years, only a very few people might have camera on hand at the ready to capture record of developing public events. A bit later came the period for video tape recorder cameras.
Recently, though, it has become quite common for many members of the public to have, on hand at the ready, digital cameras, especially those in the form of cell phones with still or moving video recording (and also real time forwarding) features
Now this condition would, on first look, appear to offer an increased chance that Newsworthy Events could hence have a greater likelihood of being documented and circulated to better inform the public audience at large. I noticed and would approve of that kind of prospect.
However, perhaps someone else also noticed that potential, but may be intending moves to obstruct this potential, holding motives counter to the ideals of wide ranging personal liberty.
See below a forwarded article discussing newly devised techniques which could possible allow officials to possess capabilities to remotely command cell phones to not record / forward picture data at / from event locations & times which became labeled as “Sensitive”, not favorable to official policy.
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The Police State Creeps Closer
Friday, September 21, 2012 news item on unknowncountry.com
Several worrisome laws that restrict our freedom have been passed recently and now Apple has patented technology which would allow governments and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem “sensitive,” meaning that these powers will have control over what can and cannot be documented on wireless devices during any public event.
If this technology had been available in 1963 , the “Zapruder footage,” from which we learned so much about the Kennedy assassination (NOTE: subscribers can still listen to these shows), would never have been seen by the public.
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http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/police-state-creeps-closer