Brinworld: cellphone as cuecat [privacy, orwell]

[Major Variola (ret.)]

A benign use of G3 cell-cams: as UPC scanners + Priceline.

A bit of a privacy concern unless you use prepaid phones.

How many years until folks can snap pictures of kids, or arabs,
and send them to some Kidnap / FatherlandSecurity site for review?
The location of the cellphone camera, of course, will be
automatically sent.

........

New camera phone software is mobile shopping guide

Comparison shopping online has become a consumer pastime. And people
love taking pictures with camera phones. Charles Fritz wants to combine
the activities.

His idea: Let people use their camera phones to scan bar codes and
immediately get price or other product information wherever they are.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/01/Technology/New_camera_phone_soft.shtml