Today's article in the Guardian finally proves what the end game is when you are caught on camera by the police attending legal demonstrations.
The Guardian claims that police are targeting thousands of political campaigners and storing their details on a database for a least seven years.
If you visit the Guardian site you can watch a surveillance video of last year's climate camp showing the police filming protestors and also taking particular interest in any journalists entering the area.
This story comes just a few weeks after section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 was introduced which could in theory make it a criminal offence to take a photograph of a police officer.
So while campaigners are facing increasing surveillance the police can theoretically charge you for doing the same.
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The police have 2 long vids of me doing a face-to-camera on demonstrations, haranguing them about the iniquity of their filming us. All the time I was giving them a piece of my mind, they were not filming others.
What takes the biscuit is that we are not supposed to photograph them. I have always found that cameras have a wonderfully tranquillising effect on the police, because they do not want to be pictured applying strangle-holds and nose holds.
So we should defy the law, and take (or pretend to take) plentiful pictures with our mobiles. They cannot arrest us all.
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