Photography and Terrorism Law in UK

[Dralowid]

Twice I have been stopped in public places by plain clothes policemen while carrying a 560mm lens and shoulder stock.

I don't do it anymore.

Michael

 

[Sparrow]

I understand that the new UK ID cards will require me to go to a passport office for an iris scan or something.

Recently they closed their Lisbon office, and relocated to Madrid which is about six hours drive away...

That’s about it, in order to avoid the political damage that making the ID card compulsory would cause they are intending “requiring” the same information if one needs a passport

Making it very difficult for me to make good my refusenik stance

 

[Sparrow]

Twice I have been stopped in public places by plain clothes policemen while carrying a 560mm lens and shoulder stock.

I don't do it anymore.

Michael

Not in a tube station I trust 🙂

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

The new British ID card card will not be compulsory, just like a US drivers license is not compulsory. But nonetheless needed.

 

[Sparrow]

The new British ID card card will not be compulsory, just like a US drivers license is not compulsory. But nonetheless needed.

It was always great fun confusing bank tellers and car rental people when producing the old style UK licence, oddly they always accepted it as proof of identity despite it clearly not being