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What laws or regulations in Malaysia to ask manufacturers installing the red light? Can you enlighten me on this legal aspect?
Don't constraint yourself in the bound of Malaysia. Heck if anything Malaysia would be the last one to implement / enforce it. I myself not a student of law but i do attend ethics and law class during my studies.Heres another interesting article about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_phone#LawsSuch places include the Pentagon, federal and state courts (see, for instance, [10]), museums, theaters, and local fitness clubs. Schools have banned them over the concern that they could be used to take images of notes that can be used in order to cheat on exams. One country, Saudi Arabia, in April 2004, banned the sale of camera phones nationwide for a time before reallowing their sale in December 2004 (although pilgrims on the Hajj were allowed to bring in camera phones). In South Korea and Japan, all camera phones sold in the country must make a clearly audible sound whenever a picture is taken: These laws are intended to reduce the number of up-skirt photos taken. In Singapore, camera phones are banned at companies or facilities that have an association with national security. In Europe, some BDSM conventions and play parties ban cellphones altogether to prevent camera phone abuse.damn. they even got a BDSM conventions

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I got a Samsung phone last October, no such nonsense reg light in their phones.
Consumer's freedom of choice is more important, not those companies worry that their secrets may got steal with our handphones.
Who are buying phones from manufacturers? Who pays Nokia? We consumers or companies? Nokia want to be moral police? Sorry, they will not get my money anymore.
As i mentioned earlier, The public awareness about the use of Camera phone is rising with the newer,better quality cameras so enjoy your samsung phone. That probably the last of the few that actually was built not for international market.
Here are few links about it
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,117035-page,1/article.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_lawhttp://www.cameraphonereport.com/2003/11/n...k_legislat.htmlhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/id,117035-page,1/article.htmlhttp://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/prog...the_camera.html Well the issue about privacy concerns did actually come from the public itself hence the corporation obligated to it (in order to penetrate more international markets) based on the awareness trend. Thats why our firmware (the apac version) Does not come with the ability to silent the shutter sound while the europe ones can. This is because probably the regulations over there just only need a flashing red light as a sign of picture being snapped.
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My trained eye can spot reddish color at the edge of your picture.

That is unacceptable for semi-pro users.
As i posted before , the tolerance to the quality is different between professions / standards. Me being a regular-joes when it comes to photography level of quality already impressed when the texts /lousy handwriting can be read visibly. A semi-pro user like you definitely have a better quality camera with set of image editing tools ya?
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I used to have an infra red camera bought from Russian sailor, that kind of camera is good to sneak bohsia in action, not N82.

Mind sell it to me

heh. Jokes aside the public perception to camera / video cams is totally different than camera phones. Lets face it. This whole hoopla just come from the few pervs who are really messed up.
...as they enable surreptitious photography. A user may pretend to be simply talking on the phone or browsing the internet, drawing no suspicion, and be able to photograph a person or place illegally or against that person's wishes.Google around and read it. You will see the level of awareness of the public. Curse the stereotypical asian guy who loves to snap lengluis picture