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Home > Camera phone pictures can lead to someone else's fun at your expense
September 27, 2005
By: Bob Whitehead
With new technologies, it is only a matter of time before
their use is turned into something less savory. For example,
there are many useful purposes for the Internet -- and many
voyeuristic ones as well. Camera phone pictures have fallen
into this category. While most choose to use these phones
for candid shots, others have chosen to use them for their
own entertainment.
Because camera phone photos can be taken quietly and
discreetly, you can capture someone's image without them
ever knowing or granting permission -- something done far
less easily with other cameras. This fact means that
capturing someone in states of undress or tilting the camera
to take pictures up a female's skirt is not only possible,
but it happens.
A recent Legal Zoom article cites the existence of
"moblogs" or mobile blogs as one problem arising from the
use of
cellular phone pictures. People take voyeuristic photos,
then post them on websites for others to view. The subject
of the photo seldom realizes this is happening.
The Video Voyeurism Prevention Act is one attempt to help
protect people from unwillingly becoming a part of these
photos. A News.com article outlines the purposes of this act
that prohibits the taking of
secret camera phone images in areas with a reasonable
expectation of privacy, like locker and changing rooms.
Meanwhile, some gyms with high-risk areas like locker
rooms are resorting to banning mobile phones and cameras
altogether. Laws will help protect you, but it is difficult
to invoke them when you don't know your picture is being
taken. Thus, more drastic measures must be taken to lower
the risk of someone being able to take voyeuristic mobile
phone pictures.
About the Author
Bob Whitehead is a successful freelance writer and
contributor to Video-Surveillance-Guide.com. Your
definitive guide to video surveillance equipment, CCTV
cameras and wireless security systems for home and business.
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