North Korean Influence On Apple's Patent?

If George Orwell was alive today, he might have considered fourth power. 1984 might have read something like this "A world where totalitarianism really is total, all power split into four roughly equal groups -- Eastasia, Eurasia, Oceania and Apple.

Google's Andy Rubin recently made a statement about Apple's restrictive behavior. He told in an interview to NY Times. "When they can’t have something, people do care. Look at the way politics work. I just don’t want to live in North Korea."

Many would echo that statement. Apple may be an American company, but it seems the company  works exactly like the suppressive regimen of North Korea.
 
Things are moving from bad towards worse. According to reports Apple has applied for a patent called, 'Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device'.
 
According to TG Daily, "the patent application refers extensively to the protection of sensitive data. If Apple's informed that a phone has been stolen, for example, the techniques described in the application would allow the company to retrieve all sensitive data from the phone remotely, transmit it to a storage server for safe keeping, and erase it entirely from the phone."
 
Another outrageous feature of the patent is Apple's ability to control the device's camera to take a picture of the user and sending it to Apple, along with the user's location -- without user's knowledge. The patents also explains how Apple can force a phone to be remotely restored to factory settings. 

None of this is what majority of users want. It's what Apple wants. It also mean Apple's direct access to sensitive data on your iPhone. How would governments around the globe take this technology? Is it possible that Apple may spy through its iPhone and iPad?
 
Many government officials flank their iPhone and iPad ignorant to the lurking dangers of using such restricted and proprietary products. It would have caused a havoc if the AT&T and iPad data leak incident had happened with some other company.
 
How much should one -- especially governments, in this era of cyberwarfare -- trust proprietary technologies like iPhone and iPad? I personally believe open source technologies like Android and Linux are the right and strategic moves where you can not only monitor what your device does to your sensitive data, but also control it.
 
Coming back to ordinary users, many bloggers fear that Apple might use this patent to control Jailbreaking which has become "legal" in the US.