The Editor, Sir:

Camera phones and the Internet have become the new craze of our society and with it some dire consequences as the privacy and reputations of individuals are increasingly now being threatened.

It is not unusual for persons to take indecent or private photographs of their partner as keepsakes etc., With the increase in technology, the urge to do so has been amplified dramatically as well as the capability to do it. It is simple, just use your cellphones.

However, with the speed of how information travel these days, the chances of it ending up in the wrong hands, literally, and finding its way on the Internet is no joking matter.

Monitoring the Internet

Hence, I propose that to address these issues of individual privacy and reputation, Parliament should not drag its feet in passing legislation making it illegal to be in possession of or forwarding pornographic emails. We also need to start monitoring/policing the Internet for offenders and track down culprits.

Secondly, we need to do something about the possession and use of such technology in schools. For it seems as our appetite for technology grows, so do our perversions, which range from students graduating from using the mirror to using their cellphones to take pictures of under the teacher's dress, to child pornography.

Use technology for good

Thirdly, we need to start using our new-found technology for good. I mean our crime rate has spiralled out of control in the last decade or so, due largely, in part, by our less than impressive rate of solving crimes. For, if individuals believe they will never be caught, then what is there to deter them from committing crimes?

Hence, I implore citizens to get involved in the crime situation by using their new found technology for good instead of passing on lewd emails of individuals while our beautiful island remains under siege.

Using the camera phone to take pictures or videos of crimes being committed could be one of our greatest crime strategies yet, as a picture is worth a thousand words.

I am, etc,

KAVELLE HYLTON

studyfreekkav3@yahoo.com

Generation W.H.Y.

Kingston

Via Go-Jamaica