{"id":27,"date":"2009-01-06T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techfragments.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2022-06-18T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:28:04","slug":"new-law-will-require-camera-phones-to-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/new-law-will-require-camera-phones-to-click\/","title":{"rendered":"New Law Will Require Camera Phones to &#8216;Click&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill is being introduced called, <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d111:HR00414:@@@L&amp;summ2=m&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camera Phone Predator Alert Act<\/a>, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera&#8217;s phone. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone.<\/p>\n<p>While it is a good gesture, I do not believe having such a law would deter criminals from hacking their camera phones to take pictures in inappropriate ways. Also, the real criminals would not even use a camera phone but would probably use other devices such as a hidden camera. Regardless, at least with the bill signed into law it would allow prosecution and jail time for individuals that get caught with a camera phone that does not make a noise.<\/p>\n<p>One question does remain, what if you have a camera phone that doesn&#8217;t make the noise at all or is suppressible? Would older phones still be covered under this new law?<\/p>\n<h4>Update:<\/h4>\n<p><em>The bill did not progress beyond debate, never came up for a vote, and was not enacted in the 111th Congress (2009\u20132010).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill is being introduced called, 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 camera&#8217;s phone. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone. While&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}