I've on two occasions been told by government goons of some kind that "if you just use your phone we won't get called to monitor your photoshoot" while filling

I've on two occasions been told by government goons of some kind that "if you just use your phone we won't get called to monitor your photoshoot" while filling in for my girlfriends photographer. We were just taking fashion photos on the street in front of our building, turns our neighbours across the street at the MI5 were not super excited about this though.