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rick

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#1892 2008-06-06 12:41 GMT     

Chris Cheesman

There is nothing in post 9/11 law that restricts our rights to take photographs, argues a leading security expert in an article published in The Guardian.

The article, headlined: 'Since when did photography become a security threat?' was written by BT's chief security technology officer Bruce Schneier.

Schneier stresses that photographers' rights to take pictures in public are worth fighting for and describes the perceived security threat as 'nonsense'.

He tells readers: 'Don't propagate the terrorist-photographer story. Remind them that prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about the USSR. Eventually sanity will be restored, but it may take a while.'

To read the full article visit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/05/news.terrorism

azeem

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#1895 2008-06-07 13:20 GMT     

thanks rick

but now the hard part

how to convince people that cameras are not machine guns and there is a hobby called photography?

because it is built in in the human mind and i have seen this before 9/11

i always try to put myself in the place of security officers and police

what harm can a photo of a natural seen cause?

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