Luann is still one of my favorite comic strips, and I wonder if this current strip is going to lead anywhere substantial.
Camera phones are one of the greatest threats to privacy that exists today. Conventional cameras? No problem, if someone takes a picture of you in the locker room you take the camera away and destroy the film. Digital cameras? Still not a problem; it’s even easier to delete that image on the memory stick.
But camera phones have the ability to send that picture in instants to other people who can send it to even more recipients. More and more teens in America have these tiny, unnoticeable phones that can capture your image without your knowledge…and in seconds, you’re the Internet’s newest soft porn star because you thought you could safely change in a locker room. No amount of prosecution can ever destroy an image once it’s on the Internet, so long as there’s even one person who has saved it to their hard drive.
I think about this a lot. I wonder whether cartoonist Greg Evans is going to turn this into a plotline or if it’s just a source for a cheap gag.