Sadly, the very nature of democracy and lawmaking means some laws must be made that have the potential to block or prohibit both the good and the bad. There are far too many dangerous sods out there who would abuse the camera phones. That is why fitness facilities have banned them from their locker and pool areas to avoid what amounts to an assault by the camera phone user who takes the picture and spreads it about, likely with sexually oriented fiddling, without permission or consent. It has handed child sexual predators a whole new weapon to use hunting children.
If it takes a legal smack up the side of the head to remind people of their responsibility to others then so be it. Too many people have forgotten that the only place you have a right to do as you please, when you please is when you live alone on a rock in the middle of nowhere.
So much for my soap box thought. It was kindly meant...
lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
PF'rs,
There was a short news clip recently about a state legislator introducing a bill to require that people not
take a picture of someone with a cell phone or similar device without their permission. I haven't yet found
the bill's actual language. Of course, many dopey bills get introduced and don't get passed. Does anyone else
know of similar legislation being proposed?
How it is possible to distinguish (in a legalistic sense) among various electronic devices that take pictures.
Will the next Canon DXX have a phone? What is the poor street photographer to do?
AZ
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