New Jersey Bill Aims To Expose Camera Phones
I’m a big fan of the camera phone - but it seems that more and more articles are appearing these days of their abuses forcing governments to move towards legislating boundaries for their usage. Sad but true:
‘Camera phones have been banned from workplaces, gyms and concert venues around the country, and now New Jersey legislators are considering altering the devices to help prevent surprise photos of people in compromising situations.An Assembly committee last week unanimously approved a bill that would require the devices to make a sound or flash a light so that photos could not be taken surreptitiously.
Increasingly in the last two years, states have been considering how to deal with camera phones.
“Someone could be on the phone and take your picture at the same time,” said the bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone (D., Hudson), a member of the Telecommunications and Utilities Committee. “The problem is you can’t tell.”
He said he had been moved to do something after hearing from a North Jersey mother whose son saw a man with a camera cell phone taking photos of boys at a mall’s urinals.
The phones simulate the sound of a camera shutter, but it can be muted.’
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