Congressman intros bill requiring cameraphones to "click" for pics

[Yoink 7]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/117622

Face to face with the worst economic crisis to face the nation in decades, our leaders are hard at work trying to come to America's aid. The latest legislative salvo? A bill that would require cameraphones to make a sound "audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone."

The bill, called the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, is the brainchild of New York's Peter King, and it's a response to the continued popularity of voyeuristic photos snapped on the sly by those darn kids. King specifically cites adolescents being spied upon "in dressing rooms and public places" in the draft of the bill.

As well, Wired notes that a similar law is already on the books in Japan, where such behavior is practically a national pastime.

But, as Wired also notes, the prospects for King's stateside bill doesn't look entirely rosy. He has no co-sponsor for the action and, a smattering of press reports aside, there hasn't been much interest in the legislation at all.

One supposes that Congress may have other matters at the top of its mind right now than phone-wielding peeping Toms. Just a hunch.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

and if this comes to be, someone will figure out a hack for it.

[Yoink 7]

will you be arrested? Cited? considered a pedophile and have to register in your community?

[NickD 202]

Always seem to forget my cell phone has a camera in it, but some boys were taking nude shots of boys and girls nude shots of girls at the high school locker rooms, so kids can't bring their cell phones to school anymore. Guess that can't bring guns either or switchblades. But God help them if they bring a bottle of aspirins.

If that bill passes, will each of us get a 300 buck coupon to trade in our old cell phones for one that clicks?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I thought this was already the case...

Regardless simply because congress is considering this doesn't (and its probably been on the to do list for a while) doesn't mean that other things are being neglected as a result.