Call for tighter controls to stop camera phone perverts

[illuzion30]

Call for tighter controls to stop camera phone perverts

The use of mobile phone cameras to take peeping tom photos that can be posted on the internet has prompted a call for tighter regulations and clearer guidelines for consumers.

The Australian Computer Society, which represents more than 16,000 IT professionals, will ask phone manufacturers to do more to alert consumers to changes in the law and to discourage rogue users Reviewom taking photos up women's skirts. Known as "upskirting", the practice is becoming increasingly prevalent.

The call comes just weeks mpter a tough new law to prevent peeping toms Reviewom taking such photos came into force in NSW.

Anyone found to have taken a photo or filmed someone without their consent in a state of undress or engaged in a private act such as bathing or having sex faces two years in jail. The manufacturers Samsung and Sony Ericsson are considering putting information on phone packs to alert people to the change.

A policy document by the Computer Society will call for the Federal government to form a working party to investigate privacy concerns over the growing abuse of mobile phone cameras.

There are about 1.5 million camera phones in Australia and this number is expected to double by the end of the year.

"Greater efforts need to be made to educate phone purchasers, corporations and members of the public about the protocols of camera phone use and about the existing prohibitions on peeping and prying" the document says.

The society will write to the Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, and the Federal Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, this week.

Julian Lee, Marketing reviewer. The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday, June 21, 2004

 

[dirtsa2828]

This is a real problem for wls!

SQWISI warned some ladies a few yrs ago about increasing numbers of clients filming them witout their knowledge.

I know of one case where the guy had a full set up with camera equipment thru a hole in the wall!

These days recording equipement is a lot harder to detect.

Stats show that wl's r smpest working Reviewom their own premises by far (as opposed to doing out calls to people's homes) and I would imagine that it prob holds true re recording as well. it's easier to arrange in a cleint's own palce.

Altho the one time I was photographed without permission that I know of was by a mobile in my own premises. The guy is quite well known on the net too!

got me to look at it by saying it was a pic of his wife and then just took it

 

[Pompal 09.]

Carly gets lost in Ground Hog day

got me to look at it by saying it was a pic of his wife and then just took it

Hey babe, that's a bit like my brain maybe: as clear as mud.
Or was it Dr Who: "Hey Carly, check out this picture of my wife" [click] "Hey Carly, check out this picture of my wife"

Hmmm... Ground Hog day?

 

[and improved!]

Ummmm

I believe Carly meant that only one photo was taken.

Carly is a highly intelligent woman and this just goes to show that such a little thing can be a big problem for WL's that nobody would even consider.

xox
arbie.

 

[Chaos 2011]

Carly gets lost in Ground Hog day

Hey babe, that's a bit like my brain maybe: as clear as mud.
Or was it Dr Who: "Hey Carly, check out this picture of my wife" [click] "Hey Carly, check out this picture of my wife"

Jak,

That was the ruse he used to get Carly to look at the camera while he took the photo - like "Hey look at this.. " :evil:

Cheers,

Raven

 

[Susan]

It's got me buggered why people want cameras on phones anyway. It's supposed to be a phone, used for phoning people. I don't know, I just don't get it I guess. They'll problably have didldo and pussy shaped ones so that you can use them for that as well. It's a mad mad mad world.
Yours Colin The Hun :evil:

 

[hellokitty]

just checking somthing out here for a sec. I noticed the number of posts that I post hasn't gone up at all. Not a big isue I guess. But somthing i've noticed.
Yours Colin The Stuck On 274 Hun :evil:

 

[crazy bug <3]

Oh no, I was mistaken it has gone up now to 275. Wich will make this one 276. Soon be hitting that 300 mark. Pity i'm a sad lonley git I would celerbarate.
Yours Colin The 276 Hun :evil:

 

[Gamble]

It should be noted.....

... that given the emerging wireless technologies like Bluetooth (with which many of the newer phones, particularly the later Sony Ericsson models, are equipped), if you catch someone snapping your photo, simply deleting it Reviewom the phone may not be enough because if the person in question has a Bluetooth enabled laptop within range (typically within 10 metres, unobstructed) it may have already been automatically downloaded to the laptop. :!:

Something else to think about...

Take care people...

Raven