And You Wonder Why I Hate Living In The UK?

The UK is not the only country that is looking under the grass for terrorists. Many big countries do the same and it depends on the intelligence of the person in charge what is done. My daughter will not go to the US anymore even though she has an "american family" that had her for one year in a scholarship. We visited each other until once , at the airport in Boston, she had to take off the diapers of her 3 year old son (it was Winter, to make it worse)while my granddaughter, then 13, cried and said she was never coming again to this country of savages. Thanks be given that she said it in Spanish. If not, she might have been put to jail for saying the truth. She has never gone back in 8 years. I´d like to take my gradchildren to Disney, but I doubt that I will be able to. There is a thin limit between taking care of freedom and licentiousness. I think that this belongs to the second

It is unconceivable that Dad was thought to be illegal owing to tooking photographs of his own four-year-old daughter in a shopping centre even they confiscated his mobile phone.I think they were sort of in a state of extreme nervousness.Nowaday.It seems that anti-terrorism is an overriding task.

Strictly speaking this is nothing new, it has always been illegal to take photos without permission in a private space and shopping centres are private places. If you look around in shopping centres you may see notices to that effect. I saw one in Watford Harlequin yesterday all the best urban all the best urban

That is something else. I don't blame you for feeling that way.

So what if you are a tourist does that mean you cannot take souvenir photos? If you are new to certain place you would love to take photos whether it's a plain view shot or with people. Well I wouldn't be surprised then if tourists will be escorted by the police for interview.

The police can't stop you taking photos or videos in any public place and have to invoke the terrorism act 2000 (ammended) under certain constraints (ie a well defined area is declared off limits to cameras for a set time period). The shopping mall is a different matter though, it is private property and the people who run it are acting within their legal rights to impose a no photography policy.

I’ve just read through the article and on one hand if there is a clearly signposted “no Photography” policy then fair do’s the security guard was just doing his job, and you can’t blame him, he doesn’t make the rules. But seriously that is one stupid rule and another case of things going too far in this country. Ironically just looking through the Braehead website there is neither any mention on there of a no photography policy and I presume the photo they have off the eating area is full of paid models and not customers they took a sneaky photo of!

The industry that I work in, is fond of complications. It makes mountains out of mole hills. We make too many specifications, restrictions, and qualifications, that we can't do anything without breaking one of our 'documents'. Somehow I feel like this incident is like my industry. That people make everything too complicated, that the simple joy of taking a picture of your own kid requires a lot of qualifications.