Posted on 01/28/2009 6:29:14 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
In a what-was-he-thinking move, Representative Peter King (R-NY) has recently introduced H.R. 414, the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act which is aimed at preventing "predators" from taking illicit photos of others in public with cell phones. The bill will force cell phone manufacturers to make the camera feature of a cell phone emit a noise so that it will be audibly obvious when a picture is taken.
As the bill summary at Thomas.loc.gov states:
Requires any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera's phone. Prohibits such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone. Treats the requirement as a consumer product safety standard and requires enforcement by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
Really? So now we are mandating sounds here? Should we begin to make laws that devices of every kind emit some sort of sound to alert everyone in the vicinity that something has been used in their presence, and predicate it all on "public safety"? And, what if someone doesn't like the particular sound chosen? Are we going to sue to get the sound we like? Will the government then make rules of what kind of sound is made, how loud, how long? Will there be great volumes of the sorts of sounds "allowed" for one thing or another? Clicks for cameras? Star Trek-like swooshing sounds when doors open?
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
I get the feeling someone took a photo of King when he was unawares (maybe picking his nose) and he’s feeling a bit irritated.
A Republican enemy of liberty. What a surprise. </s>
Five minutes after the bill is passed, someone will figure out and post all over the internet how to bypass it, probably by something as simple as putting tape over the mic.. then bam.. the millions of taxpayer dollars it took to create this bill is out the window.
I wonder if Tiger Woods complained about photos of him in action being sold without his approval and now the audible sound is cause for them not to be allowed in the gallery.
"Crick"
Why not prosecute the actual illegal activities that harm people, instead of trying to micromanage us so we can't do anything that _might_ be bad?
This is Exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created this country. Make digital cameras “click.” Did I see an “R” after that jacka$$es name?
And will video cameras go click..click...click...click...click.?
stupid party in action.
somebody just needs to substitute the sound file with a “silent” sound file and it is bypassed.
THIS is why the GOP lost, boneheads like this doofus who have no clue how the real world works today.
Perhaps we should pass a bill requiring congress creatures to live in the real world instead of the beltway.
(if a congressman can live in his father in law’s dresser drawer, then it should be no difficulty for the rest of them)
..and once you hear the click, the picture is already taken.. maybe they should pass a bill requiring that everyone who takes a picture be required to shout out the word click before actually snapping the picture?
This legislation has been introduced in previous sessions of congress. It is sold on the idea that perverts are taking photos of our children, which is possible. But, what makes one think that the phone can not be modified, like putty being put in the speaker channel?
Congress only considers the gratitude of the public.
Are there any Republicans left who even have a clue?
Five minutes after the bill is passed, someone will figure out and post all over the internet how to bypass it, probably by something as simple as putting tape over the mic.. then bam.. the millions of taxpayer dollars it took to create this bill is out the window.
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Exactly.
How about "say cheese".
perhaps the congressman has something he needs to hide causing his irrational fear of cameras.
Will Japanese people have to say, "Crick?"
So... Aside from the solutions presented here by Freepers in mere moments after hearing about the bill, I think the best laughingstock moment of all of this: No requirements for cameras not equipped with cell phones to make the ‘sound.’ And cameras hooked up to wifi?
Mo(R)on.
No.
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