FC: Saudi government gets in a snit over, gasp, phonecams

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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.

   [...]



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