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Camera Phones Showing Up on the Privacy Radar

The popularity of picture phones as gifts is raising privacy concerns. Picture phones are now highly restricted or banned by a number of public schools, parks, YMCAs, gyms and other places where people gather. Part of the concern is promoted by the liability and potential public relations fall-out that may be assigned for failure to prevent violations of privacy that may occur at their facilities.


Camera phones now in schools' lenses
, Daily Herald, May 9, 2004