Tag Archives: Civil Liberties

Photography – a further followup

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Just came across these two articles which I thought needed sharing. For anyone that thinks that the counter terrorism and other acts won’t be used to harass photographers and prevent them from carrying out their legitimate work, I’d suggest reading this little list of incidents where that has happened, and the number of commentators complaining about the same sort of thing in response to this article about a photographer lodging a complaint against the police for such behavior. +2-1

Civil contingencies unlikely

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If you’re reading this, chances are you already read the Libertarian party blog, but on the off chance you don’t go and read this. A very compelling argument for why the use of the civil contingencies act is most unlikely at this time. I find myself pretty much unable to argue with a single point of it. Most compelling of course is that Gordon Brown has a well proven track record of bottling it. +2-1

Photography followup

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Whilst this has been extensively covered elsewhere I thought it worth mentioning that the work done by FitWatch has been picked up by the mainstream media in the Guardian. Unequivocal proof that the Police even before the new counter terrorism laws were monitoring and recording the activities of people, especially photographers and journalists, whom have done nothing more than be in the vicinity of legal demonstrations. +1-1