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by Mike Masnick




Hong Kong Gym Pulls Plug On Camera Cell Phones

A chain of gyms in Hong Kong is posting signs forbidding the use of mobile phones in locker rooms. They're not afraid of people being annoyed by chatting gym-goers, but rather that people will use the increasingly popular camera phones to surreptitously take photos of other people naked in the locker room. It certainly does raise some issues about privacy. When everyone has a tiny camera all the time, do you really have any privacy anywhere?

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