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New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"
An anonymous reader writes "A new bill is being introduced called the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the phone's camera. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone."
Wasn't this law just borrowed from japan, which has been dealing with this kind of stuff for a while? I could have sworn that I read about some similar law a few years ago due to the gropey-nature of japanese city dwellers.
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I hate this crap because my kid is camera obsessed, and, upon hearing the click, stops doing the cute crap that he was previously doing and demands to see the picture.
Just another example of the perv's ruining things for the rest of us, and I'm sure that a modified firmware will be released in like 10 minutes to take it off, so the only people who will be inconvenienced are people like me (who will...hem...not get screwed after I accidentally brick my wife's phone).
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There's a small loophole there - CCTV's do not use film!
Neither does the digital camera built into your phone.
There's a small loophole there - CCTV's do not use film!
Neither does the digital camera built into your phone.
Right. So how do you "film" anything with such a device?
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