{"id":2234,"date":"2008-04-01T20:33:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2008\/04\/photography_in\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:33:32","slug":"photography_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/photography_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography in Public Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a cracking little film made for Current.TV<\/a> about the rights of people to take photos or video in public places.
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\n(Link via 2point8<\/a>)
\nAmateur Photographer<\/a> magazine has recently been carrying a series of stories about photographers stopped on the streets because they were considered “suspicious.” They even went as far as republishing the cover<\/a> they produced at the outbreak of WWII (at a time, remember, when the UK was under serious threat of invasion) highlighting the fact that you were still allowed to take photos.
\n\"Amateur<\/a>
\nThen there’s the recently launched Met Police campaign<\/a> asking people to look out for suspicious photographers.
\n\"Terrorism<\/a>
\nIf you’ve got a camera, you might be a terrorist in the eyes of the Metropolitan Police.
\nRemember, if you’re in a public place, you’re allowed to take pictures of whoever or whatever you want. That’s why a private business or individual can perfectly legally put up a CCTV camera pointing into the street. They’ve not asked your permission. You don’t have to ask theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a cracking little film made for Current.TV about the rights of people to take photos or video in public places. (Link via 2point8) Amateur Photographer magazine has recently been carrying a series of stories about photographers stopped on the streets because they were considered “suspicious.” They even went as far as republishing the cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}