Parental and corporate controls for camera-phones

A computer-readable medium containing program instructions for providing parental control for a camera-phone, the program instructions for:

• enabling a camera-phone owner to set control policies for the camera-phone at a server that specify what actions are authorized;
• downloading the control policies that affect behavior of the camera-phone to the camera-phone;
• and
• operating the camera-phone such that a user of the camera-phone is only able to perform actions authorized by the control policies.

A system for providing parental control for a camera-phone, comprising

• means for enabling a camera-phone owner to set control policies for the camera-phone at a server that specify what actions are authorized;
• means for downloading the control policies that affect behavior of the camera-phone to the camera-phone;
• and
• means for operating the camera-phone such that a user of the camera-phone is only able to perform actions authorized by the control policies.

A method for providing parental control for a camera-phone, comprising

• enabling a camera-phone owner to set control policies for the camera-phone at a server that specify what actions are authorized;
• downloading the control policies that affect behavior of the camera-phone to the camera-phone;
• only allowing a user of the camera-phone to perform actions authorized by the control policies;
• in response to a user capturing an image with the camera-phone, uploading a log of the actions and the image to the server for review by the camera-phone owner;
• and
• only releasing the images to the user if the camera-phone owner authorizes the release.