Another few hundred feet paved with good intentions...

[alexpgp]

Apple has apparently been granted a patent for software to monitor incoming and outgoing phone text messages for "inappropriate" content, and to either replace or delete such content or the whole text message, depending on how it's set up.

I'm sure this is great news for parents who want to monitor what's texted by their kids and to prevent trafficking in objectionable content, but I wonder about the expanded market for such software.

The possibilities are pretty intriguing, once you consider the climate of the times and the words "employer" and "government."

Cheers...

P.S. LJ friend james_nicoll apparently has been thinking along the same lines, additionally noting that, after all, "teenagers are not known as a group for their habit of creating new slang terms that their parents are unfamiliar with." Roger that.

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[platofish.livejournal.com]

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Stupid gooberment gives patents on just about anything these days. Just last month, I patented the letters A, E, I, O and U. All the consonents had already been patented by some Russian ;p