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'HP is developing a privacy technology that can jam still and video cameras and blur faces of people who don’t want to have their picture taken. The company developed the idea following a slew of camera phone bans from federal courthouses and gymnasium locker rooms. The company filed a patent application in April 2004. HP hasn’t developed a prototype yet; the patent covers the concept of privacy protection technology.

An HP lab group working from Bristol in the United Kingdom came up with the idea. According to the United States patent application, “Increasing usage of portable camera devices means that the privacy issue of capturing of images of subjects who would prefer not to be photographed has increased....”'

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