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A congressman wants to make the clicking sound that is made from cell phone cameras, compulsory, and he’s introduced a bill to make certain every mobile phone camera is audible.Representative Peter King, R-N.Y., put forward the “Camera Phone Predator Alert Act.” The reason is that Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone. King’s brief bill makes no reference to the far more common phenomenon of “upskirt” photos of women wearing skirts.

Numerous states and municipalities have passed laws against taking upskirt pictures, but many of them have been struck down by courts on the reasoning that people shouldn’t expect privacy protections for things they do in public. However, laws regarding pictures taken in changing rooms have been maintained since a right to privacy is expected in such places. It’s not clear how King’s bill would change the legal requirements regarding public privacy, but it’s not the first time legislators have demanded the carry-over of an old mechanical sound onto a new electronic device. The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008, brought forward by Representative Edolphus  Towns, D-N.Y., mandated that electric and hybrid gasoline-electric cars would create an artificial engine noise so that blind and other visually impaired people could hear them. King’s bill has no co-sponsors and little chance of passing. Towns’ bill, which had 80 co-sponsors, got stuck in committee in the previous Congress and would have to be re-introduced in the new session.