CAMERA PHONE DEBATE

CONGRESS PROPOSED A BILL WHICH WOULD REQUIRE CAMERA PHONES TO MAKE A SOUND WHEN THEY TAKE A PICTURE:

Right now, the U.S. is stuck in a two-front war and the economy is suffering through its worst stretch since the Great Depression. Fortunately, our elected officials are still focusing on the important issues . . . like whether or not camera phones need to make a shutter-click noise when they take a picture. Seriously.

This month, a Representative from New York named Peter King, introduced a bill . . . called the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act . . . into Congress. According to the bill, all camera phones would be required to make a, quote, "tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone" . . . and manufacturers would be forbidden from providing an option allowing customers to turn off the noise.

The idea is that the noise would prevent predators from secretly taking pictures of other people when they're in compromising positions . . . like in the locker room at the gym. (ArsTechnica.com)