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If it does I'd expect it to catastrophically fail because the codes will undoubtedly get reverse engineered and everyone would be able to easily reproduce the signals, and they could easily be broadcasted everywhere until people are so annoyed they can't take pictures anywhere that it'll get dropped.
Also unless it somehow gets baked directly into the camera chip, you'll always be able to root your Android phone and disable it, and jailbroken iPhones probably will easily disable that "feature" too.
I also think recording police activity especially if you're involved is a protected constitutional activity. Generally you always have a right to record in public.
That's only techies like 10% of the population. They just need to control 90% and with the rest they'll deal in case by case basis.
Has anyone done this for the existing traffic light priority sensors? If the signal is "having extremely bright blue flashing lights in a public space" then you can understand why people would be nervous about using that signal.
I tend to lean toward OP's original scenario never happening.
Back when signal jammers first came out, people used doom and gloom to say that autoritarian powers would jam our phones so we couldnt use them. It never happened.
Not because there weren't people who didn't try. But because the United States doesn't have one "government." We have governments. So if an out of control state legislature tries to do something, the FCC fights back. And if Congress gets too crazy, courts will strike it on Tenth Amendment grounds.
In the end, people are going to find a way to record cops. So we will. And -- despite internet pessimism -- most of the people in our governments will actually back us on it.
Authoritarian states do use their power to cut off internet connection to prevent people communicating or getting the word out about atrocities.
I don't think American police Jam signals specifically but they do spoof cell tower signals to man in the middle people's phone traffic. The government hacks people's phones. They arrest people who protest or expose government crimes. It would be tough to get away with preventing people from recording a police crime because the videos happen and spread so fast.