Digital Manners: Gym is too lax in enforcing its cellphone free locker room policy.

Digital Manners: Cellphones in Locker Rooms

Digital Manners: Cellphones in Locker Rooms

Navigating the intersection of etiquette and technology.
May 15 2012 12:45 PM

Cellphones in Locker Rooms

Should gyms enforce a no-phone zone in areas where people are, you know, naked? Those phones have cameras after all.

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This week, Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Should a gym patron ask management to enforce its cell-free locker room policy?

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Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the New York Times and the author of True Enough.

Emily Yoffe is a contributing editor at the Atlantic.