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Congressman Proposes "Camera Phone Predator Alert Act"

By Corey Rayburnyung

Congressman Peter King (R-NY) has introduced a new law entitled the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414). The proposed law would "require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken." The Act makes the finding that "children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone." You can find the text of the legislation here. Ars Technica has more. From the Act:(a) Requirement- Beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, any mobile phone containing a digital camera that is manufactured for sale in the United States shall sound a tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).