This sounds like they're basically copied what's been happening in the UK, where photographers in public places have been harassed and sometimes arrested. The

This sounds like they're basically copied what's been happening in the UK, where photographers in public places have been harassed and sometimes arrested. The excuse given is usually that photographs could aid terrorists in planning an attack, but of course the notion that terrorists abstain from using Flickr, Google street view or Google Earth is absurd. In the UK the "war on photography" has been going on for at least the last few years. For an example see http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/feb/21/police-arrest-photographer http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/feb/21/police-arrest...