{"id":11,"date":"2009-07-10T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-08-27T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T13:42:43","slug":"maybe-photographers-in-the-uk-actually-do-have-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/maybe-photographers-in-the-uk-actually-do-have-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe photographers in the UK actually <em>do<\/em> have rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clive sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/07\/09\/metropolitan_police_photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">update from <em>The Register<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence.<\/p>\n<p>There has been increasing concern in recent months that police have been over-using terrorism laws and public order legislation to harass professional and amateur photographers. The issue was raised in Parliament and the Home Office agreed to look at the rules.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance reminds officers that the public do not need a licence to take photographs in the street and the police have no power to stop people taking pictures of anything they like, including police officers.<\/p>\n<p>The over-used Terrorism Act of 2000 does not ban photography either, although it does allow police to look at images on phones or cameras during a search to see if they could be useful to a terrorist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a belated follow-up to incidents like <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/004493.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> (oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/004669.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one, too<\/a>). It&#8217;s refreshing to see that at least one government recognizes that recent police enforcement of a non-existant law must be curtailed. It&#8217;s also sad that this sort of thing is still so rare as to be noteworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Canadians shouldn&#8217;t try to be smug about this . . . we have over-enthusiastic police enforcement of mythical laws <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/004500.html\" target=\"_blank\">as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Cross-posted to the old blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005569.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005569.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clive sent me this update from The Register: The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence. There has been increasing concern in recent months that police have been over-using terrorism laws and public order legislation to harass professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,10],"tags":[29,217],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-liberty","tag-photography","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}