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Home | Friday 5th June 2009 | Issue 678

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Police may be forced to review the way they store images taken of people on protests following a recent legal victory by peace campaigner Andrew Wood. The appeal court ruled (on May 22nd) that pictures of Wood - media spokesperson for the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) - taken on a surveillance operation by Met police must be destroyed because the images were ‘a disproportionate infringement of his human rights’.  

Lord Justice Dyson said: “The retention by the police of photographs taken of persons who have not committed an offence, and who are not even suspected of having committed an offence, is always a serious matter.” 

What this decision will mean for FIT teams busy filming anyone going anywhere near a protest is not yet known. The cops, never keen to see any roll-back of the police state, are now deciding whether to appeal the appeal ruling. 

* Watching them watching you watching them at www.fitwatch.blogspot.com 



 

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