January 17, 2005

Only the Government can take your picture

It looks like the Government wants to intervene so that only THEY can take your photo without your permission.

It stems from a bill being crammed down the throats of those lucky enough to live in the Republik of New Jersey.

TRENTON - Camera phones have been banned from workplaces, gyms and concert venues around the country, and now New Jersey legislators are considering altering the devices to help prevent surprise photos of people in compromising situations.

An Assembly committee last week unanimously approved a bill that would require the devices to make a sound or flash a light so that photos could not be taken surreptitiously.

Increasingly in the last two years, states have been considering how to deal with camera phones.

"Someone could be on the phone and take your picture at the same time," said the bill's sponsor, Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone (D., Hudson), a member of the Telecommunications and Utilities Committee. "The problem is you can't tell."

Since when is the government worried out our privacy rights. From the "City that Loves you back"

Philadelphia is poised to become the first city in the state to install red-light traffic cameras, and intersections in the Northeast and nearby river wards are likely to get most of them.

Of the nine intersections that must be considered under the state law that authorized the city to install the cameras, three are in the Northeast, and four others are in the city's Kensington and Port Richmond neighborhoods

Isn't this a double standard?

But even if it were, here is a product to protect you from the government.

It's caled Phantom Plate. It caused your license plate to look blurry and distorted, as if it had seen the video in "The Ring".


Posted by psugrad98 at January 17, 2005 08:49 AM
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