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Shutter sound is required by law in many countries.
by general_failure 12y ago
Shutter sound is required by law in many countries.
- stephengillie 12y agoHow do those laws address devices without the capability to produce sound?
- omaranto 12y agoBy forbidding them, most likely.
- stephengillie 12y agoSo the law mandates a speaker, and logic to convert data to audio, be bundled with every optical CCD?
- kevingadd 12y agoThe shutter sound can just be a beep as far as I know. One digital camera I bought for dirt cheap did that, presumably to cut costs.
- baddox 12y agoMany countries? South Korea is the only one I can find a source for online. In Japan it appears to only be a voluntary choice among device manufacturers. https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/south-korea/ii-surveillance-policy https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/south-korea/ii-...
- EGreg 12y agoHow about Ukraine?
- hrktb 12y ago"voluntary" choice in Japan is basically the regulators telling the carriers that if they don't do it they'll have to regulate. From the carrier's point of view, it's a matter of doing it now in friendly terms, or doing it tomorrow with the regulators on their back.