When Nokia introduced the 7650 model almost three years ago, it has single-handedly changed the way we use a mobile phone. The 7650 was the first Nokia phone to carry a camera. Now a prospective mobile phone buyer looks not for a cellphone with a camera, but asks how many megapixels that a mobile phone camera has.

And the creation of applications that allow camera-enabled cellphones has led to what I call mobile pornography.

I find it sad that some women, in the name of love, actually allow for their lovers to take their pictures in the nude. And what saddens me most is the fact that some even allowed videos of them taken in flagrante delicto. Love can really make a fool out of us.

And again, business-minded fools are not far behind. You can even get these cellphone “scandals” in VCD and DVD forms. Heck, if you know where to find, you can probably get them from those cellphone stalls in bazaars and malls, for a fee. The scandal involving a starlet and her basketball player-boyfriend is just a symptom of what’s possible with a cellphone.

The camera-enabled cellphone is just another piece of technology that we have to take back from the realm of the malicious.

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