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Bookmarks about Inside — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:31:10 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:01:56 +0000

Security guards and cameras. I don’t know what it is about them but they are a pain in the hole, I was trying to take a photo of a guy smoking at a Lung Cancer charity collection on the street outside a Primark shop, so I ducked into Primark camera on the ready, when this moron starts waving his arms and saying no photography. By the time I had my explanation done the smoker was onto the game and went. Ruined my photo opp. completely.
I have to get a decent point and push that is discreet, because my great big DSLR is just asking for trouble.

I got stopped by the police another time, but I already told you that one.

By: Doug McCaughan

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:50:37 +0000

The terrorist don't have to kill anyone to cause terror. When our governments create fear and cause paranoid, they are serving the terrorists.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

By: bbm

bbm — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:00:32 +0000

This is a touchy issue. I have had run-ins with police, security guards and members of the public who have threatened me physically. I think the government pretending that ‘bans on public photography’ will somehow assist in combating terrorism feeds an unthinking paranoia in society.

Thanks doc.

By: Doug McCaughan

Doug McCaughan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:23:21 +0000

I answered in a video recently that I have never been harassed for taking photographs although people in Knoxville have been harassed over photographing the John Duncan Federal Building. Can’t find the link which had a reference to your rights as a photographer. However, Chris Dalby’s comment above reminded me that I have been asked to not take pictures in a store once. Not even a real store but one of those tents they set up in the parking lots around Halloween to sell costumes. The owner explained to me that I might want to set up a competitive store and could be stealing her layout design and inventory ideas. I assured her that her type of business didn’t require that much thought and if I were to need photographs for that purpose, I’d be much more subtle about it.

In Tennessee, you can end up with a class A misdemeanor for taking someone’s picture and if you disseminated it (think Flickr) it becomes a Class E felony. Granted the letter of the law reads “It is an offense for a person to knowingly photograph, or cause to be photographed an individual, when the individual is in a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, without the prior effective consent of the individual�” Just seems ripe for abuse. So, if you take someone�s picture in TN and put it on Flickr you could end up spending one to six years in prison and be fined up to $3000.

Btw, here’s a favorite photo of mine. Yes, I dorked with it in photoshop.

By: Peter Bowyer

Peter Bowyer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:11:28 +0000

I like the idea, but if I’ve read the blub correctly the eye-fi stores images locally until you get back ‘home’, then uploads – so it’s still subject to confiscation…. qik.com is another matter, though.

By: Chris Dalby

Chris Dalby — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:59:25 +0000

As an update to my carluccio’s story, last night I forwarded a link to my blog post with the video to the MD of carluccio’s. He emailed me back this morning and said that it’s not acceptable to treat a customer this way and has spoken with the Bluewater team.

Very impressed by the speed of his response, it would be nice to think that this would cause a rethink of their supposed PR policy on cameras in their restaurants. This really is PR 0.2.

By: kyo

kyo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:44:28 +0000

There are not many unsecured wifi signals around these days for the Eye-fi to use to geo-tag. In my experienace UK IP address location info is inaccurate anyway. Its still on my wish list!

By: Farouq Taj

Farouq Taj — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:27:04 +0000

The thought of taking public photos has never appealed to me until now. It makes me want to go out and start taking photographs.

By: faboomama

faboomama — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:50:29 +0000

I have, on occassion, have whipped out my mobile to voice record what is being said to me. I have also used the video function on my camera to record events. People really don't like that, but I've got to protect myself. Recently, here in Los Angeles, there have been 3 flash mob events with videographers/photographers. The latest was extremely well-organized on June 1st.