New Law to Require 'Click' from Camera Phones
how dumb
how idiotic. next they will require your phone to play the fallowing message. "warning a picture has been taken. if you have not connected please contact the nearest law enforcement immediately."
Mine doesn't, at least.
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Don't get me wrong, I think it's incredibly stupid and over-reactive to require a sound when your phone takes a picture. Have there been a lot of lawsuits regarding privacy, or something?
And what's a "reasonable distance"?? What if I couldn't hear it across the terminal at the busy, crowded airport? I think that's a reasonable distance! 🙄
KingTiger said:
Yeah, but at least with a digital *camera* other people know that you have a camera, with a cellphone it's not so obvious...
I agree with the OP that's dumb. A person could be hiding in a bush with a digital SLR. Not only have they taken a picture of you, but before you realize it, they may have taken hundreds of pictures of you.
KingTiger said:
Yeah, but at least with a digital *camera* other people know that you have a camera, with a cellphone it's not so obvious...
At this point in time, I think it's fairly safe to assume that any cell phone you see in use is a camera phone. Yeah, sure, it's not literally true, but it might as well be.
And with digital cameras coming out in smaller and less obvious formats, it's not like you can always tell a camera for what it is.
So once again, why pick on cell phones?
They're at least as obvious as a camera. I'd argue that they're more obvious because they're not being held like your subconscious thinks they should be.
The reason it matters is that government is stepping in to forcibly regulate something that doesn't need to be regulated. There is literally no point to this law, unlike a speed limit which provably saves lives (whether it is mostly ignored or not).
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