‘Candid camphones’ banned

SOME schools in America have moved to ban mobile camera phones, following the proliferation of internet sites filled with pictures shot surreptitiously in public bathrooms, locker rooms and other places.

Many schools have banned the phones and politicians in states including Iowa and Colorado are considering their own measures to protect against the “candid camphone.”

“It’s part of the next step of society. Almost everything you do, there’s a chance that somebody’s going to be recording it,” says Jim Barry, spokesman for the Consumer Electronics Association, a trade group.