BA to fingerprint domestic passengers

[PeteM]

Ian Batten wrote  on 5-03-08 19:37:
> 
> On 5 Mar 2008, at 18:40, PeteM wrote:
> 
>> Meantime here's the latest spiral of the descent;
>> http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/counter_terrorism/ct_camera_2008.pdf
>> When the police start asking you to report people for taking pictures, 
>> you *really* know we're in trouble.
> 
> 
> At times ukcrypto is close to turning into Slashdot, where the summaries 
> bear little relationship to the original article.   The entire thrust of 
> that PDF is that thousands of people take pictures perfectly innocently, 
> but occasionally one in many thousands isn't, and if you get a bad 
> feeling, report it.  That doesn't strike me as unreasonable.  

The police do not agree with you. They think they should be able to 
intervene even when the photographer is taking pictures "perfectly 
innocently".

BBC News Police seize photographer's film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7202847.stm
Mr Carroll lodged a complaint against Humberside Police but an 
investigation concluded its officers acted correctly.
22 Jan 2008

Mind you, it is hard to see what the phrase "perfectly innocently" is 
doing there at all. When I were a lad, if a man in police uniform came 
up to you and said, "'Ere, are you taking that photo perfectly 
innocently?" you'd simply arrest him. You'd know that he was an escaped 
lunatic impersonating a police officer.

-- 
Pete Mitchell