[IP] more on New York City 911 to accept images

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Alan A. Reiter" <reiter@wirelessinternet.com>
Date: January 18, 2007 11:03:36 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] : New York City 911 to accept images

Hi Dave,

I know a bit about this since one of my specialties is camera phones.

I know of at least one company, PowerPhone, that says it has a system
to integrate camera phone photos with E911.

Also, a few municipalities are accepting camera phone photos from
residents for non-emergency uses.  For example, one area in London
accepts camera phone photos of graffiti.  The borough removes the
graffiti and posts photos to prove it has taken action.

I just wrote an article about the New York City camera phone plan, here:

http://www.cameraphonereport.com/2007/01/new_york_city_w.html

Alan A. Reiter, president
Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing
E-Mail: reiter@wirelessinternet.com
Weblog:  http://www.CameraPhoneReport.com
Weblog:  http://www.MobileTelevisionReport.com
Weblog: http://photobility.sprint.com


On 1/18/07, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> Date: January 18, 2007 10:10:53 AM EST
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: New York City 911 to accept images
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/nyregion/18cameras.html says that  
> New
> York City is planning to upgrade its 911 and 311 (non-emergency city
> services) numbers to accept images sent from cell phone cameras and  
> the
> like.  It will be an interesting experiment.
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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