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A question of trust: Part 2
This article follows on from Part 1, examining the actions and motivations of the authorities. In Part 2 I examine anti-terrorist legislation used to focus on crime and terrorism and its implementation. I also look at the DNA Database and how open the authorities have been with the public. Readers can form their own opinion whether these examples suggest that photographers are simply being targeted by rogue jobsworths, whether trends suggest they have nothing to fear from the State, or the actions of the authorities are indicative of dubious intent.
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A question of trust: Part 1
Could photographers be forgiven for thinking that there is some form of conspiracy causing them to be specifically targeted by the authorities or are they simply dealing with aggressive jobsworths with little or no knowledge of the law. Does photography represent a real threat to out nation and its security or are we perhaps not being told the full and honest truth by the State?
The Data Protection Act versus photography
Perhaps naively I hadn’t thought about the implication of the DPA upon photography before... The DPA was written in the infancy of the internet. Today there are more implications of revealing personal information.
An unhealthy society?
How have we allowed ourselves to become so narrow minded to make an embarrassed grandfather feel obliged to delete his innocently taken photos fearing he has been labelled a predatory paedophile?
