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 police the power to stop anybody photographing them, on an arbitrary basis. ie It's not a law that outlaws photography of the police or soldiers - so they can let tourists still film the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace or the exterior of Parliament, but if you film or photograph a policeman doing something they don't want you to see, they can arrest you for breaking this law. It came into effect the same day that the International Commission of Jurists published a report detailing how much human rights have been eroded internationally by the 'war on terror'. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 11-Feb-09, at 9:20 PM, ruperthowe wrote: 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, and they cannot confiscate or delete material without a court order. You can listen to it here http://tinyurl.com/adpley Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
