Posted on 07/05/2004 9:23:09 AM PDT by solicitor77
CHICAGO, July 2 (UPI) -- The sign in the lobby at the sports club in Los Angeles is specific. It reads: "No Mobile Phones Beyond This Point." Management at the club did not have a problem with mobile phones, until quite recently. After all, their upscale clientele consists of film and TV producers, who like to do deals, or at least like to be seen as doing deals, while on the stair stepper or the treadmill.
The intrusive camera phone has changed all that.
"There is a celebrity clientele at the club," Amy Levy, a member of Sports Club LA, which now prohibits all mobile phones, told United Press International. "They are concerned about people taking pictures of them while they were in the shower, or while they were doing Pilates (the exercise routine). They do not want to see those pictures on the Internet."
From the federal government in Washington, D.C., to local health clubs and schools, camera phones are increasingly verboten. There are several reasons for this anti-technology trend.
The clubs are worried about members' privacy, schools fret about kids cheating on exams, and the government has legitimate national security concerns in a time of war.
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Don't worry about it too much - sex is always the quickest adopter of any new media technology. From the printing press, to the camera, to the cinema, to the internet (in our life time!), to the camera phone!
You always get a window while the pervs are ahead of the legislature with their new toys. As with (nearly) all technological advances we will work this one through and realise that the advantages of such things far outweight the disadvantages.... But in the meantime expect LOADS of paranoia spinning stories like this one - remember - just cos you aint paranoid don't mean they aint out to getcha!
federal buildings prohibit too.
When they outlaw camera phones...only outlaws will have camera phones...
What good does it make???
Camera phones don't have flashlights, and given clubs are mostly dimly lit places, there's not much of a point using them to satisfy peeping tom desires. All you'll get is a crappy photo of the underside of a table or the indiscernible pic of a dance club roof (or floor).
What's the point, anyway???
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