SETTING up cameras for a neighbourhood-watch scheme or even a domestic CCTV security network used to involve a great deal of wrestling with spaghetti-like wiring. Not any more. Thanks to a merger of cellphone technology with digital cameras, CCTV is going wireless.
Cellphone maker Nokia is this month launching a camera that can snap a high-resolution picture and send it to a picture-messaging phone or PC when prompted by a text message. It sounds harmless enough. But data protection experts say that the sudden proliferation of wireless surveillance cameras may put some people on the wrong side of the law,…
