Post by Chris ElvidgeAFAIR recording general public in a public place is also a no-no.
Security cameras are usually inside and have a warning notice on the
outside of the building.
In the UK, for the most part, taking pictures and recording video in a
public place is legal. Rules differ across the World.
But. Places like shopping centres tend to be privately owned, and even
if full of shoppers, are not public places, so photography without
consent is forbidden, just as it would be in your bedroom.
One gotcha is setting up a camera on your house to video the approaches.
You are fine videoing what happens on your premises, subject to a notice
being visible, and you are fine taking video of the street. Include a
single square inch of your neighbour's ground, though, and you could be
in deep trouble.
The general rule is that you and the subject both need to be in a public
place, such as the street. If you are planning to make money by
publishing the pictures, you need to get consent for the publication
from the subject or their guardian. (Exceptions apply for pictures where
the main subject it not the people but the scenery.)
The notice about security cameras, is, AFAIK, both to warn you that
while you may expect privacy, being on private ground, you are being
recorded anyway, and to discourage antisocial behaviour. If you object
to being recorded, you have been warned, and you did not *have* to
enter. You have a right under various Acts of Parliament to view any
security footage held of you.
There are also rules about taking pictures of people such as children
even if you are both in a public place such as a council owned paddling
pool.
Also in most of the UK, with some exceptions, if you happen to point
(Not poke) your camera through the fence of a military installation, you
will not be prosecuted unless they consider you to be a terrorist. If
you can see anything secret from the street, that is a failure on behalf
of the military on site, and they will cop it if the bosses notice.
One restriction I find highly amusing in Senapr is that if you take a
picture or video of the twinkling lights on the Eiffel Tower at night,
you can be arrested for breaking the copyright held by the creators of
the installation. And yes, they do have people patrolling the area to
make sure you don't do it.
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Tciao for Now!
John.