Category: Access & Censorship
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Yo dawg, I heard you like TSA security restrictions, so I put some security restrictions on top of your security restrictions Boing Boing
Yo dawg, I heard you like TSA security restrictions, so I put some security restrictions on top of your security restrictions (Image: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at far left, in a photo from his Facebook profile, via NYT.) Update: See related post here, with discussion of how TSA directives may affect in-flight internet an… via Boing…
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: New Luggage Rules For Photogs?
POV: New Luggage Rules For Photogs? travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/12/pov-new-luggage-rules-for-photogs.html The new regulations include restrictive hand baggage allowances for all passengers flying into all US airports, and have now been reduced to only one item of hand baggage.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Their Crappy No Photography Policy | Thomas Hawk
Link: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Their Crappy No Photography Policy | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
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Ok, So What’s the Deal? Can You or Can You Not Take Photos Inside of Starbucks? | Thomas Hawk
It turns out that the situation is hardly clear at this point and after 3 Months we still have no idea if photos are allowed as originally suggested by Orr or not. What we do have are a series of week after week after week non-answers coming back from Starbucks marketing. Below are all of…
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NYC Cop Harasses Photog, Claims “Frozen Zone”
another fine example of police officers overreaching to justify trying to prohibit a legal activity Link: NYC Cop Harasses Photog, Claims “Frozen Zone” «
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PDNPulse: Facebook Pulls Photographer's "Inappropriate" Ad
Los Angeles-based photographer Scott Nathan recently had a paid ad he created for Facebook taken down because it was deemed “either irrelevant or inappropriate.” The photograph of Katy Perry in question was shot for Too Faced Cosmetics and has appeared in in-store displays internationally. Link: PDNPulse: Facebook Pulls Photographer’s “Inappropriate” Ad
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"You can't take pictures here" – Conscientious
The first (and only) time I went to the New Museum, and of course I was snapping some photos with my little digital camera (mind you, not of the utterly forgettable art on display, but of the building). A “security” guard approached me and told me “You can’t take pictures here,” and I almost responded…
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Photography *Is* Suspicious «
Photography *Is* Suspicious Photo by Andrew Cichowski When will photographers learn to take their stinking artsy photography someplace other than public?! In San Jose this past weekend, photographer Andrew Cichowski writes on… Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/photography-is-suspicious/ the two police officers ran his ID, got his social security number and took photos of him. Eventually – and after two more squad…
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We're photographers, not terrorists | guardian.co.uk
We’re photographers, not terrorists | Marc Vallée Marc Vallée: Society’s visual history is under threat of extinction. The government must scrap section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/dec/11/photographers-section-44-terrorism-act Henri Cartier-Bresson, the master of street photography, once said: “To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart.…
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Man Sues Police for Photo Detainment «
Man Sues Police for Photo Detainment West Virgina is a hotbed of photographers rights infringements lately, huh? A man whose photos of a police cruiser using two handicapped spaces resulted in a confrontation with a state trooper is s… Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/man-sues-police-for-photo-detainment/ West Virgina is a hotbed of photographers rights infringements lately, huh? A man whose photos of…
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Scott Rensberger Arrested At Mall After Shooting Holiday Photos
Basford, who had taken his camera, interviewed Rensberger once he was in custody. The officer asked him why he’d taken a photograph of a girl still on his camera. The photo is of a choir in the Town Center Mall. It was taken from the second floor of the mall, looking down. A figure is…
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Famous architecture photographer swarmed by multiple police vehicles in London for refusing to tell security guard why he was photographing famous church Boing Boing
Famous architecture photographer swarmed by multiple police vehicles in London for refusing to tell security guard why he was photographing famous church A crack squad of London cops — three cars and a riot van — converged on a famous architectural photographer who was taking a picture of Christopher Wren’s 300 year old Christ Chur……
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Photographers win British war on photography? Boing Boing
Photographers win British war on photography? Is Britain’s war on photography coming to an end? After the Independent newspaper got senior officials to admit that anti-terror legislation was being “widely abused…to question a… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/06/photographers-win-br.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Writing in today’s Independent, he says: “Everyone… has a right to take photographs and film in public places.…
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Marshall Responds to Photographer Harassment «
Marshall Responds to Photographer Harassment The local Madison, Wisconsin, paper Isthmus picked up the story this week about an incident that happened in October where photographer Josh Zytkiewicz was questioned by a security guard outside th… Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/marshall-responds-to-photographer-harassment/ The local Madison, Wisconsin, paper Isthmus picked up the story this week about an incident that happened in October where photographer Josh Zytkiewicz was questioned by a security guard outside the…
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BBC News – BBC photographer on being stopped by police
BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned for taking photographs in Westminster. Link: BBC News – BBC photographer on being stopped by police
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Supreme Court upholds Obama ban on release of detainee torture photos – Boing Boing
Supreme Court upholds Obama ban on release of detainee torture photos The US Supreme Court today rejected an appeals court ruling that ordered the release of photos that document war-on-terror prisoners being tortured by U.S. military personnel. At first, President O… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/30/supreme-court-uphold.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
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Discarted
(no title) Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/ We are photographers & concerned citizens living in Los Angeles. / With the goal to shoot photographs freely in public spaces wherever, whenever, of whoever. / And a desire to get the word out, educate and engage.
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LASD Officer Richard Gylfie, Photography is Not a Crime | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
via: LASD Officer Richard Gylfie, Photography is Not a Crime | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
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Iran holding three journalists on charges of 'unauthorized reporting' – washingtonpost.com
Three foreign journalists reported detained in Iran Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110602462.html?wprss=rss_world Iranian officials arrested a Japanese reporter and two Canadian reporters during anti-government protests this week and charged them with “unauthorized reporting,”
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Good News & A Bit of Deja Vu « Vincent Laforet
Link: Good News & A Bit of Deja Vu « Vincent Laforet’s Blog The only bad news for me – is that this is a bit too much of Deja Vu – and that I did everything that I could to prevent a repeat of last year (when Reverie was also pulled down after it…