Photographers Rights And The Law In The UK - A brief guide for street photographers.
Know your rights when you're out with your camera.
Despite the law being clear on a citizen's rights to freely...
Photographers Rights And The Law In The UK - A brief guide for street photographers.
Know your rights when you're out with your camera.
Despite the law being clear on a citizen's rights to freely take pictures in public places (with a few restrictions) there is growing evidence of the police, police community support officers (PCSOs), security guards and general jobsworths failing to respect the rights of photographers going about their lawful business.
UPDATE: In the UK, a new "Counter Terrorism Act" came into force on 16th February 2009. It contains an amendment to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This amendment will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit information about any police constable "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".
Furthermore, Schedule 7 of the Bill applies this amendment to internet service providers and web hosting services. This means they will have a legal duty to remove all sites perceived to fall under this offence, and has provisions for use at home and abroad.
It is unclear what information will be classed as useful to terrorists, but due to this ambiguous wording, the Bill has implications for bloggers, journalists, photographers, activists and anyone who values freedom of speech.
We must show that we won't be intimidated, or called terrorists for resisting or monitoring repressive policing.
Fitwatch are one of the groups who could be targeted by this new legislation. Fitwatch, started two years ago by activists, resists and opposes the use of Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) on demonstrations. FIT are police officers who photograph, follow, and generally intimidate protesters. They bring, in the words of Jacqui Smith, harassment style policing to protests.
As part of this opposition, Fitwatch run a blog http://www.fitwatch.blogspot.com/ where they share information about these officers. We feel this blog could be under threat from this new legislation.
Whilst Fitwatch may not like officers who act outside of the law, they are certainly not terrorists.
Neither are:
* people filming, and uploading to Youtube, footage of police officers acting illegally.
* bloggers writing about being randomly stopped and searched.
* journalists publishing details of corrupt or racist cops.
* photographers publishing photographs of police on protests.
The list goes on, but all are under threat.
This legislation not only attempts to stifle our ability to hold the police force to account for their actions, but also attacks the principles of open publishing on the internet. It must be resisted.
Please join the mass action and oppose this ludicrous law.
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This is really awful to watch.. like rats in a maze. total submission, total control. These so called cops really think highly of themselves don't they.. and what are they really? Manipulated empty shells, just 'following orders' without even thinking about it critically.. are they human? I think not.
@MoridanX Yea. Or it could be protecting yourself against violation of the law, which happens daily.
Wake up mate, your living in corporate dictatorship
We send people to torture camps, 7/7 - was an inside job, "terrorism" = protesting/ criticising the government or running alternative news websites. You were sold into slavery at birth via your birth certificate, we gave the banks enough to give everyone in the UK £40,000 [do you understand what money really is?, how it's made + operates]
Jesus lives. Jesus return is very soon meaning you should seek him before his return. all the signs of his return are everywhere. Jesus loves us very much and is willing to forgive all of our sins if we ask for forgiveness. bible prophecies are being fulfilled so be alert. BEWARE OF H1N1 VACCINES. BEWARE OF RFID CHIPS. THE U.S GOVERNMENT HAS A SATANIC AGENDA. DONT BELIEVE IN THE MEDIA. CHECK OUT FEMA CAMPS BEING BUILD ALL OVER THE US. ILLUMINATI, NWO, OWG IS ALL REAL. JESUS=SAVIOR!!!
Here's a perspective. Imagine for a moment there were only the equivalent of a Sheriff & a single Deputy for each province & people's flats get robbed frequently. There would be an outcry to have more officers to prevent crime. We want police to actually catch criminals so we live safer yet we don't like their presence & we taunt them.
We seek proper balance but Freedom & Protection are very difficult lines to draw as Protection removes Freedom & Freedom removes Protection.
Yeah many US cops are more brutal than UK cops. Since the Rodney King beating is when new laws were set in place to crack down on the video recording of police or at least the pretense of new laws. Interesting enough a patrol unit may video & audio record you but if you record the officer they use the ease dropping law because you are recording his conversation without his permission. If the Rodney King video was never shot then the riots would not have occurred, I think that is their angle
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Wake up mate, your living in corporate dictatorship
We send people to torture camps, 7/7 - was an inside job,
"terrorism" = protesting/ criticising the government or running alternative news websites. You were sold into slavery at birth via your birth certificate, we gave the banks enough to give everyone in the UK £40,000 [do you understand what money really is?, how it's made + operates]
I see this is the UK. Oh, well in the U.S. Officers are being recorded 90% of the time, so you don't need to record them.
I like my birth certificate. It is like the first object that I've ever received in my life. I don't know what this £40,000 is though.
yeah right.
BEWARE OF H1N1 VACCINES.
BEWARE OF RFID CHIPS.
THE U.S GOVERNMENT HAS A SATANIC AGENDA. DONT BELIEVE IN THE MEDIA.
CHECK OUT FEMA CAMPS BEING BUILD ALL OVER THE US.
ILLUMINATI, NWO, OWG IS ALL REAL.
JESUS=SAVIOR!!!
Imagine for a moment there were only the equivalent of a Sheriff & a single Deputy for each province & people's flats get robbed frequently. There would be an outcry to have more officers to prevent crime. We want police to actually catch criminals so we live safer yet we don't like their presence & we taunt them.
We seek proper balance but Freedom & Protection are very difficult lines to draw as Protection removes Freedom &
Freedom removes Protection.