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I’ve been watching a petition to prevent the UK government from requiring people to have a photographer ID card to photograph in public make the rounds for a bit, and am happy to discover that the concerns it aims to address appear to be unfounded:<\/p>\n

\nA photographer’s Downing Street petition against ‘proposed restrictions’ on rights to take pictures in public has confused many into wrongly believing that the government is planning such a move. It seems that the petition was largely fuelled by a photo enthusiast’s idea to launch a self-styled ID Card and has nothing to do with future government policy whatsoever.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Continue reading<\/a> at [UK-based] Amateur Photographer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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