Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center?

New submitter Kyrall writes "A man was questioned by security guards and then police after taking a photo of his own child in a UK shopping center. The center apparently has a 'no photography' policy 'to protect the privacy of staff and shoppers and to have a legitimate opportunity to challenge suspicious behavior.' He was told by a security guard that taking a photo was illegal. He also said that a police officer claimed, 'he was within in his rights to confiscate the mobile phone on which the photos were taken.'"

Comments

Oh you know Britain

[makubesu]

they're so into this privacy thing, they barely have cameras anywhere.

Re:Won't Somebody Please Think of the Shoppers?

[gandhi_2]

Minding your own business?

All the art work on commercial packaging in the shopping center are copyrighted designs! You really think you can get away with copyright violations?

You sir, are worse than Hitler!

Re:Get a life

[nrozema]

The real question here is: why do people need so badly to take pictures and upload them to Facebook all the time?

Yes, I for one am completely perplexed by this new found fascination with photographing your own kids. It's so strange.

Everything is OK

[sortadan]

4:45 :-)

Re:Photographer Rights

[MysteriousPreacher]

Well, that's complicated. If they have it posted that "No Photographs are allowed" then technically the pictures are THEIR property, not yours, and the same laws would apply which cover them being able to search, let's just say, a backpack which you've placed stolen items into.

This is so painfully wrong, legally and logically, that I'm just going to respond by listing some animals.

Dog, cat, rabbit, zebra.