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Britain's no-photographing-cops law: even the cops hate it
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| The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio show As it Happens did a great
| job covering the new British law that makes it a crime to take a picture of a
| police officer or a building, where that picture might be useful in "planning
| an act of terrorism." First, they interviewed Peter Murray, Vice-President of
| the National Union of Journalists, who, predictably, worries that his members
| will find themselves with arrest-records as terrorists for violating the law.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/21/britains-nophotograp.html
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Recent:
No Photo Ban in Subways, Yet an Arrest
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| Finished with his camera, Mr. Taylor, 30, was about to board the train when a
| police officer called to him. He stepped back from the train.
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| “The cop wanted my ID, and I showed it to him,” Mr. Taylor said. “He told me
| I couldn’t take the pictures. I told him that’s not true, that the rules
| permitted it. He said I was wrong. I said, ‘I’m willing to bet your
| paycheck.’ ”
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| Mr. Taylor was right. The officer was enforcing a nonexistent rule. And if
| recent experience is any guide, one paycheck won’t come close to covering
| what a wrongful arrest in this kind of case could cost the taxpayers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18about.html?_r=3
Section 76 ignites new debate
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| The National Union of Journalists, in association with BJP, has called for
| photographers to make their voices heard at a rally on 16 February as a new
| law is introduced that allows for the arrest - and potential imprisonment -
| of anyone who takes pictures of police officers 'likely to be useful to a
| person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.
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http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=839141
Related:
Elderly woman prohibiting from photographing empty swimming pool "to prevent
paedophilia"
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| An 82-year-old woman in Southampton, UK was told she couldn't take photos of
| an empty wading pool because she might be a paedophile. Because, you know,
| anything that children touch regularly becomes part of their souls, and if a
| paedophile looks at those objects, it's just like sexually assaulting a
| child.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/25/elderly-woman-prohib.html
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