http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/toptease_1.html Saudi voyeurs like new cell phone-cameras Sunday, June 9, 2002 ABU DHABI Saudi Arabia is being urged to ban a new cellular phone that can be used to take digital photographs. The reason: Saudi men have been reported to use the high tech phones to surreptitiously photograph women. Religious police have already confiscated shipments of the new cellular phones. Officials said Saudi women had complained that young Saudi men were slipping the devices into facilities reserved for women and secretly taking photographs, Middle East Newsline reported. Religious police chief Ibrahim Al Ghaith, has urged the kingdom to ban the phones. The phones are being distributed by numerous dealers, including Saudi Ericsson, where they are said to be a popular item among Saudi men. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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