Digital Shoplifting
The spreading use of digital cameras and camera-equipped cell phones has created new challenges for bookstore owners in Japan. (They’re such trend-setters!) It’s called “digital shoplifting” - taking pictures of magazine articles and images, and then putting the magazine back on the rack. You can read about it at a Japanese page here. Yes, it’s in English!
More troubling is the that these cameras and camera/phones are so easily overlooked that they are finding their way to places where they shouldn’t, such as locker rooms. Schools need to be looking ahead and developing policies before some unpleasant incident takes place.