Tech Takes: Are the new smartphones creep enablers?
Am not sure about that anymore.
Sure it would be nice to be able to zoom into artists onstage at concerts, especially when you're seated far back.Smartphones have been used in ways that can only be described as intrusive. Look at how social media users use their phone cameras in various ways that can only be called creepy. Public shaming by taking photos of so-called offenders and posting them online has become the daily norm.
That should really be the default setting on all phones because honestly people around you deserve to know if you're taking their picture without their expressed consent.
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