To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos
July 20th, 2008, Leander Kahney
The iPhone 3G in Japan has a special feature unique to that country: The camera always makes a conspicuous “shutter” sound when a picture is taken, even when the phone is set to “silent” mode.
The loud shutter sound is supposed to deter voyeurs from taking sneaky pictures up women’s’ skirts — or down their tops.
In Japan, upskirt and downblouse shots have become increasingly popular with the advent of high-resolution camera phones.
As a result, all cell phones sold in Japan make a conspicuous shutter sound, or say the word “cheese” when a snap is taken, according to Nobuyuki Hayashi, a tech reporter based in Tokyo. On almost all new cell phones, the camera shutter sound can not be muted, Hayashi says.
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Japan is way ahead of the US
Japan is way ahead of the US on this one. Oklahoma upheld the Constitutionality of upskirts saying that women who were short-mini skirts or whatever were knowingly making their body parts public.
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/80122/