Category: Access & Censorship
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UPDATE: Judge rules commercial drone use legal in USA
Link: UPDATE: Judge rules commercial drone use legal in USA | dvafoto
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Massachusetts court says ‘upskirt’ photos are legal
Link: Massachusetts court says ‘upskirt’ photos are legal – CNN.com The high court ruled that the practice did not violate the law because the women who were photographed while riding Boston public transportation were not nude or partially nude.
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GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide
Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ • Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone• Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo • Optic…
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White House Shuts Out Photographers Again. So Now What?
White House Shuts Out Photographers Again. So Now What? | PDNPulse Now that it is evident that the White House is deaf to complaints from photographers and their employers about being shut out of some of President Obama’s official meetings, the question is, What can the media do about it? On Friday, the White House …
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White House Does It Again: Photographers Shut Out Of Dalai Lama Meeting
White House Does It Again: Photographers Shut Out Of Dalai Lama Meeting Despite repeated and sometimes heated objections, despite meetings where the White House Press Secretary promised to make positive changes, and despite pressure from a media coalition who again and again have objected to the lack of access independent jou via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/white-house-does-it-again-photographers-shut-out-dalai-lama-meeting “I…
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Judge restricts use of color photography in Holmes case
Link: Judge restricts use of color photography in Holmes case – Blacksburg – Mobile So Williams struck a compromise, ruling that the photographer could photograph Holmes from the waist up and that the newspaper could publish a picture in black and white.
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Hartford Police Sued for Stopping Camera Drone, Chasing Photog Away
Hartford Police Sued for Stopping Camera Drone, Chasing Photog Away | PDNPulse A news photographer has sued the Hartford, Connecticut police department and two of its officers for forcing him to stop flying a camera-equipped drone over the scene of a police investigation. Photographer Pedro Rivera, who works for television station W via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/02/hartford-police-sued-for-stopping-camera-drone-chasing-photog-away.html…
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A Photographer’s Guide to the First Amendment and Dealing with Police Intimidation
PDN Video: A Photographer’s Guide to the First Amendment and Dealing with Police Intimidation | PDNPulse Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, news photographers have been subject to police intimidation and arrest, as if photography is a crime. But federal law protects photography and photographers, as Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press P via…
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Russian Olympic official to reporters: stop complaining about hotels or we’ll release CCTV footage of you in the bathroom
Russian Olympic official to reporters: stop complaining about hotels or we’ll release CCTV footage of you in the bathroom Dmitry Kozak, Russia’s Olympian deputy prime minister warned a Wall Street Journal reporter that he would release hidden-camera footage of journalists in their hotel bathrooms if they continu… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/russian-olympic-official-to-re.html Dmitry Kozak, Russia’s Olympian…
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American Photojournalist James Nachtwey Shot In Thai Violence
American Photojournalist Shot In Thai Violence James Nachtwey continued working after being shot via Time: http://world.time.com/2014/02/01/american-photojournalist-shot-in-thai-violence/ was not badly injured and was working again soon after being wounded
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White House Photo Access: Carney Plays Souza, Shoots Press
White House Photo Access (Ongoing): Carney Plays Souza, Shoots Press. Plus: the Invisible Lunch. – Reading The Pictures Call it insult to injury as the White House press secretary takes over the official Instagram site the day before the State of the Union address. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/01/white-house-photo-access-carney-plays-souza-shoots-press/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 In the shadow of the media…
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Dozens of journalists injured in Kiev during protests, five people killed
Link: Dozens of journalists injured in Kiev during protests, five people killed | Poynter. Another journalist providing live video of the conflict for Espreso TV was assaulted and kidnapped on Jan. 22 before being released. More than two dozen journalists have been assaulted, mostly by police, while covering the events.
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Tales of photo propaganda
Link: Tales of photo propaganda | Thoughts of a Bohemian Dutch newspaper The Volkskrant (circ 250k) published a full page spread placing side to side images from North Korean leader Kim Jung Un and President Obama – in both cases, using government produced visuals
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FAA says drone photojournalism illegal…for now
Link: FAA says drone photojournalism illegal…for now | dvafoto The use of drones in journalism (and everything else) will only increase. The Reuters Institute released a report in June 2013 on just this subject (pdf of report). In the report, they argue that newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters, will turn to drones because they vastly simplify…
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FAA on drone recordings by journalists: ‘There is no gray area’
Link: FAA on drone recordings by journalists: ‘There is no gray area’ | Poynter. Hobbyists are allowed to use small, radio-controlled crafts under specific guidelines, but “if you’re using it for any sort of commercial purposes, including journalism, that’s not allowed,” he added.
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Photographer says Spokesman-Review’s drone-shot video occurred in a ‘gray area’
Link: Photographer says Spokesman-Review’s drone-shot video occurred in a ‘gray area’ | Poynter. “The fact that there might be some FAA concerns has certainly gotten our attention,” Graham said, adding that “there wasn’t much discussion ahead of time” about the camera ship recordings.
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Italy, Street-Photography and the Law
Link: Foto-Grafo | Italy, Street-Photography and the Law The clash between the right to take pictures in public places, on the one hand, and, on the other, the (often mistaken) right to ownership of the personal image together with the (even more mistaken) right to “privacy” is not peculiar to Italy, but Italian law does…
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Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Along U.S. Border
Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Along U.S. Border A federal judge today upheld a President Barack Obama administration policy allowing U.S. officials along the U.S. border to seize and search laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices for any reason. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/gadget-border-searches-2/ Alarmingly, the government contends the Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles inland from the…
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NY Judge Throws Out Photographers’ Border Search Constitutional Challenge
NY Judge Throws Out Photographers’ Border Search Constitutional Challenge In September 2010 the National Press Photographers Association joined an important federal lawsuit in a Constitutional challenge of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s laptop search policy at the border. On Friday a U.S. District Judge dismissed th via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/ny-judge-throws-out-photographers-border-search-constitutional-challenge On Friday U.S. District Judge…
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Photo Ops and Staging: Beyond White House Access, the Larger Issue is What We Have Access To
Photo Ops and Staging: Beyond White House Access, the Larger Issue is What We Have Access To – Reading The Pictures The current antagonism between photographers and the White House needs to be broadened beyond the simple question of access. It is time to look at the bigger picture, and make the photo-op as much…