Law makes you click as you click
A new law is being suggested in the United States that if a camera on a cell phone takes a shot it must make an audible noise.
This law, if introduced, will require any digital camera on a cell phone to make a sound when a photo is taken. Seems a somewhat contentious idea. Trying to legally stop electronic perving. (An Australian definition of the phrase perving would be looking up Down Under.) And if you are dead set on doing it, why not use a camera without a cell phone instead?
This pretty daft idea of a click when your phone goes click comes from the fertile and febrile mind of New York Republican Rep. Peter King, who would like Congress to requires digital cameras — specifically those on mobile phones — ‘to make a sound’ when a photograph is taken. Sound not specified but a raspberry would probably fit the bill.
The move is part of the ‘Camera Phone Predator Alert Act’ and the idea is to ensure privacy and safety of the public.
The first mention found by use was in the Wired Blog.
The draft of the bill states, ‘Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone.’
So will it happen? Nah. The chances the bill will pass are the same as a celluloid cat walking through Hell carrying a hot shovel. It is to be hoped.
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