2000: The world's first mobile phones with cameras hit the streets of Japan.
2002: Camera phones find their way to markets in Australia, Europe and the US.
June 8, 2003: Photos of convicted insider trader Rene Rivkin are beamed to Sydney's Sunday Telegraph from within prison.
June 2003: The Royal Life Saving Society advises pools to ban mobile phones with cameras from changing rooms to protect the privacy of bathers.
July 14, 2003: Samsung Electronics, one of the world's biggest players in the camera phone market, bans their use at research facilities in South Korea to prevent corporate espionage. Visitors are asked to stick tape over the handsets' lens.
July 2003: Japan's Magazine Publishers Association launches an ad campaign asking readers not to take pictures of magazines in lieu of buying them.
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