July 5, 2003
Samsung bans camera phones in workplace
This is wild. Samsung Electronics, the world's leading maker of high-end camera phones said it would block employees and visitors from bringing their camera phones into their factories. The ban will be effective from July 14, according to Saturday Nation on the Web and The Korea Herald (a valid link courtesy of Mike Masnick from Techdirt Wireless)
"The company seems to have no other choice. The fast penetration of high-powered camera phones is now fueling worries over leakage of corporate information and industrial know-how".
Steve Outing reported earlier on the Auto Industry confiscating cell phones before entering certain areas for fear of pictures taken of un-veiled models. After privacy concerns on an individual level and bans in public places, now camera phones bans are hitting the industrial sector.
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