Not really a street photography ban, a ban of pretty much all PUBLIC photography, even of buildings and scenery. That's gonna be GREAT for the European tourism industry!
-Ray
Not really a street photography ban, a ban of pretty much all PUBLIC photography, even of buildings and scenery. That's gonna be GREAT for the European tourism industry!
-Ray
My thought. This would certainly impact my thinking about a sight-seeing trip to Europe. Not to mention a nightmare of enforcement issues.
My thought. This would certainly impact my thinking about a sight-seeing trip to Europe. Not to mention a nightmare of enforcement issues.
I was planning to vote to stay in the EU in the forthcoming UK referendum but this makes me wonder.
Hopefully it will go away but if it doesn't there could well be problems in the UK. Most sensible EU countries, particularly France and Italy, simply ignore EU legislation which they don't like but despite our supposed euroscepticism the UK has an unfortunate tendency to gold-plate EU nonsense and enforce it more rigorously than most other countries. The debacle over motorcycle driving tests a few years ago is a prime example.
I'd say that would be something of an over-reaction - voting 'Out' because of this bit of silliness is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This is just one of those daft ideas which will either not become law, or will become law and be found to be wholly unenforceable. The EU has many good aspects, but this idea definitely isn't among them. I'd rather vote to stay in the EU, and just campaign against silly ideas such as this. After all, our government's agenda is packed full of stupid ideas...
what about all the cctv images ? Google?
I was being tongue in cheek. There is no way the UK will or should leave the EU but you'd almost think the EU was trying to give British Eurosceptics more ammunition when you see this nonsense.