Commenting on Gartner's recommendations that corporations should develop policies for camera phones, employment law specialist Tom Potbury says existing corporate policies might be sufficient for dealing with camera phones.
Commenting in Out-Law.com, a legal Web site created by the Masons law firm, Potbury says if an employee uses a camera phone to compromise security or confidentiality, "normal disciplinary measures can be applied as they could be if a member of staff were copying sensitive documents with a photocopier."
Potbury says new technology doesn't necessarily require new regulations and "most complaints or cases of misuse can be dealt with using existing disciplinary procedures."
Continued debate
It's good the establishment of policies for camera phones are beginning to foster intelligent debate, rather than the Luddite recommendations for outright bans for all corporations.
Society will establish norms for camera phone use just as it establishes etiquette and policies for other technologies. It will just take a while for things to work out.
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