"The genie's out of the bottle"
Data Point 1: The Mercury News has an
article on how ubiquitous digital photography has furnished uncensored images of the conflict in Iraq, including the infamous Abu Ghraib photos. "You can't make all the cell phones go away," one officer in Iraq tells us. "You can't make all the digital cameras go away. The genie's out of the bottle."
Data Point 2: The Register
reports:
It's always been something of an in joke with those who know the Japanese market for miniature cameras. You know that they are described as "up-skirt" devices, but you always assumed this was a witticism. But no: and now it's going to get the camera phone made illegal in America. The Video Voyeurism Prevention Act has now been approved. It passed the Senate last year, and has now got through the House Judiciary Committee. It, or something like it, will almost certainly become law.
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Clay
Posted by at May 17, 2004 09:39 AM
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