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Photography is Not a Crime (10 unread)

• Ohio Mall Security Guard Flies off the Handle Trying to Prevent Photos of Accident

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  A security guard for an Ohio shopping mall made a complete fool of herself as she tried to prevent people from taking photos of a truck that ended up in a ravine on mall property.

  Officer Adams, as she describes herself in the above video, first threatened to confiscate [...]

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• NYPD Cops Arrest Woman Recording Them, Apparently Stealing Wrong Memory Card (Updated)

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  New York City police officers arrested a woman who was video recording them from a public sidewalk as they conducted some type of “vehicle safety checkpoint.”

  The officers apparently stole a memory card from a camera, which turned out to be the wrong one, allowing us to view the video.

  In the [...]

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• NYC Photographer Skirting Legal Boundaries by Secretly Photographing Residents in Their Homes

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  Photo by Arne Svenson from his collection titled “The Neighbors” where he secretly photographs neighbors from his second-floor apartment as they abide in their high-rise apartments.

   

  A New York City photographer who is making national news by photographing people through their apartment windows, then displaying the photographs in an art [...]

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• Phoenix PD Return Man’s Confiscated Phone After Failing to Obtain Access to Video

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  A week after Phoenix police turned Raymond Rodden’s life upside down because he photographed a federal building, they returned his iPhone, iPad and Macintosh computer, which they had been holding as “evidence” – even though his only crime was that he had walked into a public alleyway, a bogus [...]

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• Cop Assaults Motorcyclist for Video Recording During Traffic Stop

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  It is easy to criticize this video because the guy insisted on holding the camera vertical, but it’s becoming obvious that smartphone companies need to build their phones to record horizontally even if you hold it vertically as we can do with the Flip.

  After all, it’s easier to hold the [...]

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• PINAC Correspondent Receives Threatening Email from Youtube Regarding Video

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  PINAC correspondent Jeffrey Gray has produced 85 videos on Youtube, racking up more than a million views since January 2011.

  But it wasn’t until today that he received notice from Youtube, threatening to remove one of his videos if he failed to remove any personal information that could identify a [...]

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• FBI Investigating California Deputies for Deleting Footage of Beating Death from Confiscated Phones (Update II)

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  It’s beginning to look like Kern County sheriff deputies not only confiscated phones from witnesses who recorded them beating a man to death last week.

  It appears they also deleted footage from one of the phones.

  But rather than circle the wagons as we normally see in these situations, Kern County [...]

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• Baltimore Police Sued Once Again for Deleting Footage from Citizen’s Camera (Updated)

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  With one of the worst reputations in the country for violating the rights of citizens with cameras, the Baltimore Police Department is being sued for attacking a woman and smashing her camera, marking the second time in two years it has been sued for destroying footage.

  The [...]

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• NYPD Cops Swarm Sub Station to Make Arrest, Forcing Man with Camera Away from Scene

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  It started with two New York City police officers trying to handcuff a man in a Harlem subway station while another man recorded from a respectable distance.

  It ended with more than 25 NYPD cops swarming the station to help detain the guy, who wasn’t exactly fighting the cops, but wasn’t [...]

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• San Jose Cop Gets Schooled by Passenger with Camera on TSA Photography Policy

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  A San Jose cop ordered a man to stop recording a security checkpoint at the city’s airport, seizing the man’s boarding pass before he was informed that the man was doing nothing illegal.

  Patrick Gocek told officer S. Farias his purpose was to ensure Transportation Security Administration screeners were complying with [...]

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