Have you been busted?

[ericmark]

No I said I was an electrician and I was required to keep records of faults found. He has missed the fact that Concord was taking off in back ground. However we have the "Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000" which allows police powers that can be used to stop one. But the European court of human rights' judgement in the case of Gillan and Quinton v the United Kingdom, has resulted in the police relaxing somewhat their powers and it does seem in my area if one is open taking photos they leave you alone. Any attempt to hid the camera to get candid shots can cause problems though.
There have been protests here.
Living out in the sticks I have no problems. The national record centre will allow registered cameras and there is not fee to register. Many others do the same some with small charge and really speaking any one who is a photographer not a Terrorist has not real reason not to identify themselves.

[masp]

There is a program to register cameras in the UK? That is positively Orwellian. Are there other countries that have camera registration programs?

I doubt whether I should bring a camera should I ever visit the UK now. Glad to hear the EU is protecting your civil liberties there somewhat though...

[ericmark]

In the main there are no problems but every round and again we hear reports. I would expect if one looked into what happened you would find the person did something silly. We are no where near as bad as some other countries we have all read of how people have been arrested as spies when they take photos of aircraft where they claim they were just plane spotters.
But anyone with a little sense would think twice before taking photos outside military air base. Think this happened in Greece?
I would be very surprised if any normal visitor to UK had any problems with a camera taking normal photos.

[masp]

Yeah, that does sound reasonable. Reading this forum thread: http://www.photography.ca/Forums/f3/...iour-7588.html and watching this other video from the Guardian about an art student who got arrested for filming was rather eye opening on what could happen if your photography etiquette isn't so good (or what could happen even if your etiquette is good).

Of course it isn't always something as bad as a run in with the police. It can be a confrontation with someone thinks you're taking pictures of them and doesn't like it, etc. Oh well. It's a good thing there's always nature photography.