Is it against the law for me to follow someone and write down details of their entire day like I'm a private detective?
just curious because that would obviously be worse and even more intrusive. Or like a newspaper reporter. I hope this man doesn't talk to the press, they're clearly far worse than the police.
It's a bit weird what the police are doing in terms of simply discovering someone can tell you where you were and what you were doing better than your own memory, but I'm not sure what harm it's doing.
It's kind of impressive that the police are paying attention and making notes on these things, or would he rather they ignored everyone, including the extremists that turn up to protests, draw layouts of things etc etc
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 3 May 2011, 12:12,
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'if you aren't doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about'
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mutated monty, Tue 3 May 2011, 12:40,
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indeed, and sometimes its reassuring that people are keeping an eye on you in case you take a tumble!
but back to my first question, does anyone know if it is legal to follow someone and record everything they are doing when you are not a policeman?
If its legal for normal people, reporters or private eyes to do it, what is this guy complaining about?
Also, isn't he being a bit of a hypocritical cunt if he was drawing who was there and where the police stood?
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 3 May 2011, 12:52,
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You can do whatever you like in a public space
so long as you're not harassing that person. Which probably means that if said person got annoyed enough at your actions, they might be able to use the law to stop that annoyance.
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Tue 3 May 2011, 14:45,
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right, so if I'm not spotted I can create my own massive dossier on this bloke
brilliant!
maybe I've already started :D
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 3 May 2011, 14:51,
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It happens with
celebs all the time. Huge scrapbooks of every newspaper cutting, camping outside houses etc. If it goes too far, it can be a criminal act, as in the Rio Ferdinand case recently.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 3 May 2011, 15:00,
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it makes it hard for me to think that what the police is doing is bad
when in theory they have the best intentions and there are so many more mental people doing far worse yet not breaking the law
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 3 May 2011, 15:16,
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And if you aren't doing anything wrong you don't need watching doing it.
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but you can't know someone is doing anything wrong without watching them
I'd rather there was a chance police could prevent a serious crime than they had to see every disaster happen before slowly working their way back through evidence to say "ooh, it was him", especially if by this non observation approach witness statements couldn't be taken or neighbours/family members couldn't be asked about suspects because just looking at anyone around you and remembering what they did was some kind of fascist control. :D
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 3 May 2011, 13:53,
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as someone who loves attention...
if no ones watching, you've got something to worry about.
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