TGFKASE

If I remember correctly, wheelchair next to Dubya, behind Obama.....

Hello.Kitty

it's not particularly new - my brother was walking home one Friday night in Cardiff and got hauled in front of a CCTV camera by a cop who was trying to confirm the ID of some troublemakers. When the cop was told it wasn't him on the radio, he was sent on his way without so much as a "sorry"...

MacScot

Yep...that's face recognition technology for you !

shiva

er that pic was actually taken with a canon g10, a 14megapixel camera. 200 odd pics were then digitally melded together. regardless its still a cool pic

re cctv, most cctv footage is excellent these days, however most is still recorded onto video which downgrades the quality so much that is inadmitable in court.
Should you wish to be a pain in the arse to anyone be it shop, council, police etc who takes your picture be it at a demonstration or walking down the street. They are legally obliged under the freedom of information act after payment of a tenner to provide you with all relevant footage of yourself.
This is of course a ****ing nightmare to do as finding you will be hard and then blanking out everyone who isnt you takes time.

under a little publisised act of madness by labour last year effective as oif jan this year, anyone taking photographs in the uk can have theri equipment seized and any pics the cops dont like can be destroyed immediately with absolutely no legal comeback, the hundreds of thousands of amateur and proffesional photographers in the uk are now by defauult and law guilty until proven innocent..........

Now tahts western freedom for you

Inselaffen

must have fit the general description of them otherwise he would have been able to tell them to get stuffed. its quite handy having studied PACE

MacScot

OK...I was taking information from Ray's post at http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=592838

fred uk

Between new labour trying to be brother No1 and so on, protester claiming the right to smash up a bank and so many telling us how good drugs are I'm glad i chose to leave these freedoms behind.

Inselaffen

you must have fond memories from then. Being in your twenties!

BangleMan

get it right....

Inselaffen

i was trying to be nice

Hello.Kitty

not sure about that, considering the whole "google streets" business atm... Google are apparently completely legally taking pics, as they are doing so from a public highway - however (after some paranoid people in an expensive suburb of Milton Keynes protested), they are more than willing to remove anyone's house from the picture if requested. They also blank out car number plates and faces.

Police have been able to confiscate film and delete pictures under the Terrorism Act for a good while now... a student friend of mine has his pics wiped 5 or 6 years ago... although he was taking pics of people's reactions to a box placed in the middle of the pavement. Don't ask why. He only just managed not to be arrested.

The Dean

There is a much wider issue here - sweeping police 'powers' now in place following various EU directives.

Forgive my ongoing Euroscepticism, but the European Arrest Warrant is terrifying in its implications..........

http://www.ukip.org/content/european...o-police-state

Norm_uk

That's called doing their job...the innocent have nothing to fear from having their photo kept at Scotland Yard.

N.

fred uk

I used to be of that school of thought but then I started thinking.

It's all fine if you have a government that is not paranoid but the UK has at the moment and they are getting worse.

It can now, I'm assured, be deemed illegal under anti terror laws to take a photo of a copper and some poor sod was pulled for taking photos of a train a few weeks ago.
A train spotter for crying out loud.

Norm_uk

Well that's another issue almost in itself.

I don't trust what the UK government is up to...a government should be afraid of it's people not the other way around.

My comments were based on the assumption that the government is fairly reasonable and tempered...

N.