BANNING PUBLIC PHOTOGRAPHY!! New Gov. Legislation!

[thedame]

Hello All...

I've been sent an email regarding a proposed new bill to BAN PUBLIC PHOTOGRAPHY IN BRITAIN. This would mean you couldn't take photographs in Britain's streets. I've also heard that this is a hoax. Either way, there is a petition to sign... The following is a passage from the forwarded email:
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The UK Government are about to propose restrictions on photography in public places which could make street photography and documentary
photography against the law. There's a petition on the Downing St website against the Government's proposals to restrict the use of photography in public areas. <br><br>

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography


Sign, and forward, if you are so inclined .... There are a number of moves promoting the requirement of 'ID' cards to allow photographers to operate in a public place. It is a fundamental right of a UK citizen to use a camera in a public place,
indeed there is no right to privacy when in a public place. These moves have developed from paranoia and only promote suspicion towards genuine people following their hobby or profession.

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What do you think?

thanks
theDame

[dondaz]

Hi Thedame,

As a film-maker I am very interested in urban documentary, a passion I have had for over a dozen years.

I make films of all types from public places and will continue to do so the rest of my life.

This is indeed a serious issue here, as the implications are enormous.

I have tracked down what appears to be the original sources of this news.

It seems, however, there is no actual Bill prepared for parliment. Here's a web page by the author of the petition:

http://www.phooto.co.uk/rights.shtml

Other usefull info here:

http://www.epuk.org/News/472/npower-injunction-on-epuk-member

These are actually rumours rather than fact and I'm not entirely sure whether the Downing street petition site is at all credible (a topic for a future thread perhaps?).

How about the peadophiles sitting in Big Brother Camera Control Rooms zooming in on our kids in public places; this is the way I look at government street camera's and their insidious opperators.

What type of sneaky low life wants to spend his working life watching other people going about their private business? Sad is what they are, and quite possibly sex offenders fueling their fantacies over our children.

I found this comment from a photographer interesting:

This proposed House Of Commons Bill to ban photography in public places was mentioned a year ago in one of the photo journals. Whether such a Bill would pass first reading or not, is questionable, but it is a subject that all citizens should be concerned about as our lives come under increased scrutiny by the proliferation of surveillance cameras, and various levels of government. Nikon users as I am, are not immune. I have been approached several times by private security personnel when photographing downtown office towers in Toronto during the past year. My wife and I were saddened to see what has happened to the beautiful Grosvenor Square in London UK, where I worked forty years ago. Access for traffic at one end has been blocked by concrete barriers, and armed guards with automatic weapons patrol the front entrance to the building. Needless to say I was careful not to point my camera in that direction. Now in my seventies I would hate to see the day when a camera could only be used within the confines of ones home.

This is definately an area the NWO would like more control over, for obvious reasons.

But, the way I see it, as David Icke said in one of his documentaries:

"He was filming bla bla bla and when he had finished, along came this security guy who said to him.

"You're not alowed to film that."

David Replied "I just have mate!"

This is the way I am with my own filming.

I will keep my eye out for possible future legislation on this.

Best

Darren

[misscpb]

Hi

Yes I remember David filming and the police came over and told him to stop filming and could not give him a good reason as to why he had to stop. It was whilst he was in the central control network in London.