Hong Kong No plan to limit camera phone use

The government of Hong Kong has no plan to enact a law that would ban people from taking mobile phones with built-in cameras into public swimming pools or changing rooms, according to Secretary for Home Affairs Patrick Ho, as "Such a law would cause inconvenience to the majority of law-abiding users of leisure facilities and would be extremely difficult to enforce", reports The Standard via Alan Reiter's Camera Phone Report.

"Ho said the police had received 12 complaints of clandestine photography last year. On average, there is one such offence every month and there is no sign of an upward trend,'' he said.

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