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...ive 500 miles away, you can show them your pictures. Picture-taking cell phones also have benefits for business professionals. Pictures of the most important pages of reports can be made quickly. Business men can take pictures of new clients and new business associates. The old saying, “I’m not good at names, but I never forget a face,” becomes obsolete. With the press of a button, a business man can memorize a name with a face. Business espionage will also become a problem, where spying on a competitor can be made easy by the surreptitious use of a camera cell-phone. The world can become a safer place. Picture-taking cell phones can help police capture criminals. While in the act of committing a crime, criminals can be photographed without being noticed (www.notbored.org). Espionage services can find many clandestine ways to use camera cell-phones. New cell phones have either or both GPS (Global Positioning System transponders) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification transponders), allowing government and others the ability to track the location of a cell phone user. The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) have shown that terrorists can be targeted by using this position locating capability. When they call a terrorist, and he answers, they have been able to target them from helicopters with missiles for assassinations. While there are many advantages to having a cell phone that takes pictures, there are also many disadvantages. In 2002, the Josephson Institute of Ethics took a survey of 12,000 high-school students and found that 74 percent of the students said they had cheated on an exam at least once (McCabe). How did they do this? They used their cell phones to instant message questions and answers and to store notes. With picture taking capabilities, students can photograph the test questions for other students or take pictures of answers in their texts or of other students answers (KansasCity.com). Consumer fraud by camera cell-phone is an up and coming problem. In a store at a checkout counter, when you hand your credit card to the cashier, an unscrupulous individual can take a snapshot of your card and get your name, credit card number and expiration date. With this information, credit card fraud can be easy. It is inevitable that such abuse will become rampant (WBALChannel.com). Clandestine pictures of individuals in compromising and embarrassing situations, such as in bathrooms, locker rooms, or other public areas can be a problem of immense destructive power (www.notbored.com). Many schools and athletic clubs have outlawed the use of camera cell-phones. Child pornography such as that of a mother changing her baby in a public bathroom can cause great da...