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Privacy group says Apple plans to patent "traitorware" and spy on users:

Some people may be celebrating the U.S. Copyright Office declaration that it's legal to "jailbreak" iPhones. But Apple is fighting back, and a well-known privacy group warns that a recent Apple patent application "does nothing short of providing a roadmap for how Apple can --- and presumably will --- spy on its customers and control the way its customers use Apple products." The patent application is downright chilling. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has examined Apple's patent application for, in the patent's words, "identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device." Read article here.