'Authority' paranoia over photography in London
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An interesting short film about the legality of taking photographs on the streets in the UK. There's a nice interaction between the photographer and a couple of Police Community Support Officers in Central London.
For those who are unfimilar with CSO's, these are not Police Officers, though they are uniformed personnel working with the police in England and Wales. Their function it seems is:
'...to provide a visible and reassuring presence on the streets and tackling the menace of anti-social behaviour.'
You can draw your own conclusions on that!
NB The bit about having to ask for permission before taking photographs in Railway Stations is somewhat misleading as you don't have to have prior permission - not at the moment anyway
Link to a letter written by Home Office Minister Tony McNaulty confirming that there are no legal restrictions on taking photographs in public places:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asisawit/2473437441/
Here's a link to a recent Guardian article about terrorist not bothering to photograph their 'targets'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/05/news.terrorism
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Peter
I totally agree with you especially your point about ID cards. If they are introduce you can see that every jumped up jobs worth will demand to see one.
In the UK you have no general right to privacy and taking a photograph of someone in a public place would not normally be considered an invasion of privacy. However if the picture was used commercially, for example in an advertisement, without the photographer getting a model release, then the person could bring a civil legal action against the photographer.
We now live in a police state. A state were the police pick on those who would otherwise be law abiding citizens, whilst ignoring the sort of ferral scum who cause 99% of the crime, just because the otherwise law abiding citizens are easier pickings.
And the police wonder why they have so little support of the good people in this country.
FFS, this is just another form of communism.
You don't blame? That's nice. Or:
"I don't blame i"
You don't blame you? What?
The thing is, if you're unable to appreciate the extent of these issues and why they're important, you're making it that much easier for the rest of us to find ourselves without the basic rights and freedoms of man. Your apathy, your ignorance, is as much a threat to society as those that would exploit it because apathy and ignorance are all too easy to exploit.
x
what idiots