Category: Access & Censorship

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Benoit, who was with his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, said police pulled him out of the car, put him face down on the pavement, guns pointed at the couples’ heads, handcuffed him, and smashed his cell phone. Then they put the smashed phone in his back pocket as he lay on the ground.

But Benoit had saved the video to his phone’s SIM card and hid the card in his mouth before the phone was smashed.

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Another week, another law restricting photography

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The latest example comes from Washington D.C. where police confiscated a phone from a woman who had recorded some type of altercation between police and another man.

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The Home Office and the British Security Industry Association have published a new set of guidelines for security guards confirming that photography in public places is legal and cannot be restricted

Let Journalists Work, City Police Are Ordered (Published 2011)

Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has issued an internal message warning that New York City officers who interfere unreasonably with journalists’ access will be subject to disciplinary action.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/nyregion/new-york-police-are-ordered-to-let-journalists-work.html

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While the law no longer has language specifically addressing photography or video recording, both opponents and supporters of the law say that its intent is to prevent videos of farm operations from being made. Under the law, fraudulently entering a farm would be punishable by up to 1 year in prison and a $1,500 fine.

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A manager for G4S, a security firm, has said that security guards working to protect the Olympic site in London are trained to deter people from taking photographs, it has been claimed

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Nikon has been forced to reopen a controversial exhibition on Korean comfort women in Japan after a judge found in favour of the photographer

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Press photographers, backed by the National Union of Journalists, are calling for a boycott of the Stone Roses reunion concerts in protest of rights-grabbing photography rules

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