EFF condemns Apple's "traitorware" technology

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a watchdog group for digital privacy issues, has issued a statement condemning Apple's exploration of what EFF calls "traitorware." According to the EFF statement, Apple has filed a patent application on technology that would allow Apple to take pictures of an iPhone user without the knowledge of the user and send them back to Apple.

In addition to images, voice and even heartbeats could also be surreptitiously recorded and transmitted. According to EFF, the technology would allow Apple to disable phones that the user has legally modified in ways that Apple does not want.