Cellular phone cameras have become a powerful tool for journalists and citizens in reporting requests for bribes [1] and other excessive uses of power. In Mexico, cellular phones and social networks have also become a popular form to broadcast abuses of power, attempts at electoral fraud [2], and demonstrations of citizens against the police. [3]In Brazil images of police abuse against reporters and protestors [4] have been shared throughout numerous cities in the country.
Tania Lara in The Knight Center's Journalism in the Americas Blog [5] writes about how journalists and citizens are using cellular phone cameras and social networks to denounce various abuses by authorities.