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Why All Cell Phones in Japan are Shipped With an Annoying Shutter Sound

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You see, all cell phones in Japan are shipped with an annoying shutter sound that gets more and more grating with every photo taken. Why not turn it off, you ask? Not so fast… In Japan, that shutter sound cannot be disabled because of privacy concerns. Remember, Japan is the birthplace of the camera phone. And, unfortunately, it's also the birthplace of creeps taking photos with their phones that they shouldn't be taking, like up a woman's skirt. As a result, mobile phone carriers in Japan worked with mobile phone manufacturers to make the annoying shutter sound standard (and irremovable) on all phones. That made voyeuristic photography something much more difficult to do. That’s obviously a good thing to make such disgusting acts more difficult. "...all cellphones with built-in cameras shipped with a shutter sound that played when a photo was taken — and it could not be disabled. This was not something that was required by law, but it was taken up voluntarily by all Japanese cellphone

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