[Iain M. Banks]
Excellent photographic apparatus, suitable only for those physically able to use it, and very difficult to detect, let alone confiscate, reported by Slashdot.
I wonder whether it comes with the appropriate accessories: filters (ND, polariser), eyepatch, crutch, parrot, etc.
Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
Sarble the Eye
Posted in photography, tagged eye camera on 7 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not different; not moving
Posted in photography, tagged protest on 16 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Some good pictures at Old Holborn of some cheerful and smiling (more or less) police officers having their pictures taken outside Scotland Yard.
Not perhaps as good as these pictures, but good pictures nonetheless. Now that’s what I call ‘total coverage’.
Of course the police officers are not actually doing anything, and though not obviously plastic [...]
Oiks and police gang up on photojournalist
Posted in photography, tagged voyeurism on 10 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From the British Journal of Photography:
A police officer has destroyed a journalist’s images of people sledging, arguing that it represented an act of voyeurism… reporter Alex Lewis took several photos in Stanborugh Park on 03 February when a man who thought he was photographing his children for sexual purposes allegedly threatened him.
The reporter called the [...]
Be there, or be 2¼ square
Posted in photography on 10 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Photography protest [thanks to SpyBlog].
Monday 16rh February 2009, from 11am… Broadway, London, SW1
Nearest Tube Station is St. James’s Park
Remember, that, very sneakily, New Scotland Yard is just within the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ss 132 -138 Designated Area around Parliament Square (see the ParliamentProtest.org.uk blog for details), and so the Metroplitan Police [...]
The illegality of photography
Posted in photography, tagged illegality on 4 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The British Journal of Photography:
The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest – and imprisonment – of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.
Not just between photographers and police.
The arrangement [...]
The stroke of the pen
Posted in photography, tagged Counter-Terrorism Act on 23 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ian Parker-Joseph, quoting Spy Blog, in turn quoting the Counter-Terrorism Act, 2008, amending Section 58 of the Terrorism Act, 2000:
(1) A person commits an offence who—
(a) elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is or has been—
(i) a member of Her Majesty’s forces,
(ii) a member of any of the intelligence services, [...]
Watch this space
Posted in photography, tagged cctv on 18 December, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is a report in The Register about the home secretary’s view that it is perfectly ‘acceptable’ for the RIPA to be used by local councils to investigate trivial matters, provided that said matters are not on a very short list of very trivial matters (two items are listed).
It also says
…Smith… wants more police forces [...]
War on photography: NPIA guidelines
Posted in photography, tagged NPIA on 1 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At Freedom and Whisky David Farrer reports that in Edinburgh the war on photography continues (motivated, in this case, by what seems to be ordinary local ‘authority’ greed and taking the form of trying to bully people into buying some kind of licence to do what is perfectly legal anyway).
Whereas The Register quotes the
New [...]
School project = ‘terrorism’
Posted in photography, tagged PCSOs on 3 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fido the Dog refers to the Sutton Guardian.
Once again, a legitimate photographer is harrassed, subjected to made-up ‘legal’ procedures, and awarded a six-year quasi-criminal record which will prejudice his employment and his future relations with the police.
Once again, by PCSOs.
He is 15 and was doing work for a school project. Unlike most harrassed photographers, who [...]
Black camera cars sighted in York
Posted in photography, tagged Google on 3 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting one. The Press, via The Register:
CONTROVERSIAL internet “spy cars” have been spotted in York, prompting an outcry from privacy campaigners… Amateur snappers have captured the cars driving around the city, complete with roof-mounted cameras. They are part of a high-tech online mapping project by internet giant Google, but city leaders say the [...]
