42 days and hand over your flash card. [Thanks to Mike Reichman for the link.]
"... memory cards, cameras and mobile phones, PDA's, laptops - anything containing digital information, as well as letters, notebooks etc. will be able to be removed and kept by police for up to 4 days even though no offence has been committed.
"Police, PCSO's and public are already quite capable of forcibly and wrongly insisting that cameras require a licence or that photos of people in the street require permission or that photographing children is illegal. The addition of a hazy certainty that cards and photos may lawfully be confiscated on demand seems sure to significantly worsen this already toxic mess."
TTL points to this Tim Ferris post about the situation in the US.
"Tomorrow, July 8th, could mark the beginning of official condoning of warrantless surveillance of law-abiding citizens in the US, not to mention foreign nationals. I am not an alarmist and believe in qualified surveillance with process — this is different. I’ve done the homework."
What Every American Needs to Know (and Do) About FISA Before Tuesday
ReplyDeleteA 'constable' wanting to search and seize ordinary equipment from most people in the USA is likely to wind up in jail, in the media, fired, suspended from his job, have his searching hand bitten off, or worse.
ReplyDeleteThat's why SOME of us live in the US and the "yessir, sorry sir, thank you, may I have another" types live in the UK.