"Laws can never be universally and compulsorily enforced because laws are merely guidelines."
But this kind of thing is encoding those "choose to follow or suffer the consequences" laws into "we will take control and force your devices to comply".
e.g. no photography within 100m of the police, even if you are an investigative journalist willing to break the letter of a restrictive law to cover a story.
Right, which is completely preposterous and will never happen. The biggest problem, as outlined in the article, is that one way or another the security measures for such a protocol would eventually (probably quickly) be cracked which means such devices couldn't be trusted anymore, etc.
e.g., The journalist will take the picture, one way or another. You can't clobber free will with gadgets.
But this kind of thing is encoding those "choose to follow or suffer the consequences" laws into "we will take control and force your devices to comply".
e.g. no photography within 100m of the police, even if you are an investigative journalist willing to break the letter of a restrictive law to cover a story.