Over the course of the past month, there have been numerous stories of everyday people being arrested for taking photos.  Sometimes, it’s of the police and sometimes it’s not.  Photography in a public place should not be a crime under any circumstances and it certainly shouldn’t even be questioned when on private property.

The police slightly harass the guy in the video below and get told off, politely.

This is just one month of incidents.  Consider how many there are in a year.

The London police are deleting tourists’ photos of buses and tube stations to prevent terrorism.  It will probably help to prevent tourism as well.  Apparently terrorists don’t know Google Street View exists and that they can stay home to plot their evildoing instead of going outside with a camera.

Also, here are some photos of the Vauxhall bus station that these “terrorists” were trying to take photographs of.