Copy protection could be coming to JPGs BBC reports

[Robin Rowland]

BBC News is reporting

JPeg lockdown: Restriction options sought by committee
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34538705
JPeg pictures could soon have built-in restrictions making them harder to copy, if recommendations by the body overseeing the format are implemented.
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPeg) committee has called for controls over how image data in .jpg files is accessed.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, of course, is raising and objections and say it will never work (which may be technically correct) but the EFF is also the loudest voice in favour of what they call "free culture"

There's No DRM in JPEG—Let's Keep It That Way
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/theres-no-drm-jpeg-lets-keep-it-way

Tech documents from jpg.org
http://www.jpeg.org/items/20150910_privacy_security_summary.html