Comments on: Snap happy Curly and photo laws

By: Ellee

Ellee — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:46 +0000

Yes, I agree.

By: Jeremy Jacobs

Jeremy Jacobs — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:59:33 +0000

Keep snapping away Curly.

By: Welshcakes Limoncello

Welshcakes Limoncello — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:56:28 +0000

It really is frightening.

By: Ellee

Ellee — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:42:22 +0000

Curly, A shame you couldn’t make it on Breakfast Time, maybe another time, but certainly it was very short notice.

And many thanks for the post and video clip. I think this is a really interesting story. Didn’t Austin Mitchell have his own camera confiscated once at a Labour party conference?

I’m a keen photographer too and share your concerns and how they should be balanced against genuine suspicion and evidence to prevent photographers being made scapegoats in all the fight against terrorists and paedophilia.

By: Curly

Curly — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:35:46 +0000

Just remembered, here's a video clip of the programme that I could not attend. Fancy asking at 5:00 pm if you could get down to London that night (from Newcastle) to appear on Breakfast Time in the morning!)

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:13:03 +0000

It’s a sad state of affairs. Who on earth thinks these things?

By: Flowerpot

Flowerpot — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:10:05 +0000

It’s getting crazy isn’t it? Everyone’s becoming nmore and more paranoid…

By: jmb

jmb — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:04:19 +0000

Sounds like Russia in the old days. Well not quite that bad yet, but the thin end of the wedge.

By: image consultant

image consultant — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:00:04 +0000

The police have been helped in solving crimes in the past because people had pictures with suspects in the backgrounds.
CCTV is all very well but the picture quality is terrible and terrorists/criminals know where they are; the police are potentially ensuring they get less evidence in the future.

By: Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:29 +0000

The way we are going, photography will get banned. The paranoid thoughts of others are getting worse.