Street photography petition in UK

Please sign the petition if you live in the UK or are expat:

http://petitions.pm.go​v.uk/Photography/#deta​il

http://www.snopes.com/​inboxer/petition/inter​net.htm

Also, do you know if there's a link to the original story about all of this? I read the papers etc here and haven't heard anything about this. I did a quick look online to see if I could track it down but didn't have much luck.

I'd be interested in the story behind this. Seems impossible.
I have been told by numerous security guards in Sydney "you can't take photo's of any building"
My first thought is "I wonder if they have warned all the Japanese tourists at the airport..."
I assume the UK does like the money tourism generates , are they planning to impose the ID requirement on tourists? If not , UK citizens will have less rights than tourists.

Hi All,

If this is all about being able to identify a person who is taking pictures then don't forget, all the Japanese tourists DO have ID, they needed their passport to get into the country.

Some of us neither leave the country nor drive and therefore don't possess any photographic ID (not that we want one necessarily).

This could just be a different angle on the ID card issue.

Regards
Nigel

Choderboy wrote in post #2748124
I'd be interested in the story behind this. Seems impossible..

If it becomes law like in France you may not get nicked but enough people will make you feel pretty uncomfortable carrying your expensive toy