Shadow Footprints

Wanderings in Virtu and Verity.

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Camera phones and the expectation of privacy

Why are people banning cellphones in an attempt to ban camera phones for privacy? Why not just ban the use cameras? Taking a picture with a camera phone would breach that ban and achieve the desired end. If you see someone fiddling with a phone you should assume that it includes a camera, same as you would if you saw him fiddling with some anonymous device that has a lens.