Watch Where You Point That Phone, Buddy

In one of its final actions of the year, Congress passed a bill banning Peeping Tom photos with your camera phone. So plans to use your phone to post dirty pictures on the Internet could now land you in jail. The law makes it a crime to videotape or photograph the naked or underwear-only clad privates of a person without that person's consent -- at least when a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Of course, in these days of the Patriot Act -- do we ever really have an expectation of privacy? Better keep your pants on -- just in case. (Boston Globe)