October 13, 2003
The struggle against phone-cameras gets organized
In a much written-about-before topic, Marie-Michèle Vassiliou for 160characters.org looks into whether camera-phones are really a threat to industrial secrets, individual privacy and copyrights.
In Vassiliou's article there are some interesting facts that are new to Picturephoning.com:
-- "According to the Chosun Ilbo Daily, the very serious South Korean democratic party should soon put forward a bill to force manufacturers to build phones that would generate a noise when a picture is being taken, so as to warn the entourage.
-- A few months after Samsung, Hyundai and Kia Motors have banned camera-phones from their factories and research centers.
-- At the request of the police department, the New-Zealand subsidiary of Vodafone has set up an internal system to intercept photos transmitted on its mobile phone network. But the authorization of the judiciary is a prerequisite to warrant the individual liberties of the user.
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