A new bill is being introduced called the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the phone’s camera. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone.
As usual, the reason for this act is pointed at children that need to be protected from perverts rather than the public perhaps documenting unlawful behaviour by employees of the federal government such as the police. Footage like this has taken a new step forward with thousands of blogs and video plattforms like youtube.
Since almost anyone nowadays carries a mobile phone that may have a phone integrated (even Blackberries) the potential is much larger than any government surveillance system…
So how is this going to stop perverts and stalkers from filming?
Maybe there should be a bill enforcing storage capacity on cell phones as well…