> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > P. J. Alling > > In the United Kingdom, it's probably higher than that for a city > dweller. >
you can probably walk from one end of London to the other and be on camera all the way. I know for sure, having worked closely with security at one of the department stores, that you can walk the length of Oxford Street and be followed by cameras all the way. I was in their control room once when someone noticed a known shoplifter at one end of the street, and followed her by camera all the way to the store, where she was followed in person picking stuff off the shelves, then arrested when she left the building. As a photographer who fights for the right to photograph people in public, I can hardly object to all these security cameras - except perhaps on cost / benefit grounds. B > On 7/14/2011 11:55 AM, Norm Baugher wrote: > > I find it quiet ironic, it's thought that the average city dweller > has his > > image taken upwards of 200 times per day unbeknownst to them (read it > > somewhere). > > Norm > > > > From: Ralf R. Radermacher > >> People have become much touchier. > > And it's getting worse by the day. Years ago, we used to be the nice > guy > > with the camera. > > > > The first blow came when the Belgian judicial system failed > > catastrophically which led to the Dutroux affair in 1995. That's > when > > we turned into monsters who stalk innocent children on playgrounds. > > > > Next, in 1997, an estranged British housewife lost her life in a > > car-chase with a bunch of papparazzi, in Paris. That's when we became > > buggers who kill beautiful innocent princesses. > > > > Then, there was 9/11. We've been treated as potential terrorists > since > > then. > > > > Last year, there was an enormous uproar, here in Germany, about > Google > > Streetview. The Germans and their politicians fought bitterly for the > > privacy of their hedges, garden fences, and street-side curtains. In > a > > move to calm things down, Google kindly offered to blur the pictures > of > > individual houses if the people living there requested this. The > German > > press reported this as a *right* and an *obligation*, and since then > > every Hans and Franz thinks that he can forbid all street photography > in > > his burrow. > > > > What next? I really don't mind any longer. My K-5 is now taking > photos > > of my old radios. They look nice, sit still and don't complain. > > > > Ralf > > > > > > > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering > Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
