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Camera Phones Raise Whole New Set of Privacy Issues

By Catherine A. Carroll

The Montana High School Association—which oversees the state's high school athletic, speech, and music activities—issued a strong recommendation in November that schools craft policies to prohibit the use of digital camera phones in locker rooms.

Meanwhile, the Kentucky School Boards Association plans to issue a sample policy this summer that outlines some prohibitions of camera phones in school buildings.

And in Ireland, an incident in which an image of a partially clothed schoolgirl was taken by a camera phone and transmitted to other phones has prompted serious...