vague = power
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Rupert wrote:
> This week, the Counterterrorism Act came into effect, which makes it
> illegal to document the activities of anybody who is or has ever been
> a member of the armed forces, the intelligence services or the
> police, in a way that m
This week, the Counterterrorism Act came into effect, which makes it
illegal to document the activities of anybody who is or has ever been
a member of the armed forces, the intelligence services or the
police, in a way that might be useful to terrorists.
This deliberate vagueness gives the p
There's a short but interesting piece on the BBC's Law In Action about
whether the police have any right to stop you taking photographs in
public in the UK, in light of various cases where the police have done
this. The answer is, basically, that they have to suspect criminal or
terrorist intent,
