Over 11,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple not to deploy technology that would allow third parties like the police to use it to disable cameras on user phones. Apple got a patent for this infrared technology in June and bagging a patent does not necessarily mean that the company is going to use the technology in its new devices. Civil liberties groups like the American Civil Liberties Union are critical of the implications of the deployment of the technology. Apple could not be immediately reached for comment on the petition, which is aiming at 12,000 signatures.”]