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Make them noisy and privacy is retained

Found through Gizomodo: an article about a Korean bill proposing that all camera phones should have to make a noisy "click" when snapping a picture.

Well, this is one way of making it harder for the dumbasses like those at mobileasses.com to snap candid pictures (argh... ...must... ...fight urge to... ...make Monty Python jokes...) of unsuspecting victims.

"Huh Un-na, a ruling Millennium Democratic Party member on the Assembly's Science, Technology, Information and Telecommunications committee said that the party plans to submit a bill mandating that cameraphones be designed to emit a loud noise when photos are taken. The noise would alert people in public that their picture might have been taken. Huh said the bill would require that mobile handset manufacturers install the noisemaker in cell phones, in order to prevent what she called 'human rights infringements' and to prevent corporate espionage."

But does crippling our electronics, making them even more annoying than they already are even, solve any problems?

Gizmodo: "If someone wants to snap pictures surreptitiously there are plenty of others ways to go about it that don't require the use of a cameraphone. And why stop with cameraphones? Why not put make all digital cameras, or even small film cameras, emit a noise when their shutter is snapped? How about having tape recorders make a loud noise when the record button is pressed, so that people don't have to worry about being clandestinely recorded?"

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

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