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No right not to be photographed - councils overreact : Comments
By Russ Grayson, published 12/7/2005Russ Grayson argues the attempted ban on photography in public places is not the best response to new communications technologies.
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As a father of three, my concerns about paedophile activity are as strong as anyone's but I am also aware of the infectious and uplifting quality of photos that capture the sense of awe and spontaneous glee that comes so easily to children's faces. Put these images in a retirement home and watch them weave their magic on the soul. They should be put everywhere, like Aldous Huxley's talking Macaws in "Island", his vision of paradise, to remind us all of what life was meant to be.
For the day is rapidly approaching when the median household will be devoid of such glee and our society will be defined by what Christopher Isherwood described as "small men with frowns, beheading daisies with a stick, that one finds loitering without vista in the foothills of great ideas".