Lots of chatter online lately about how the UK (my home country) and London in particular, are clamping down on photographers.
On the 8th Dec, The Guardian ran a story about a chuch photographer getting stopped under terrorism powers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/08/police-search-photographer-terrorism-powers
On the 9th Dec, The Independent wrote about Police searching a photographer using anti-terror laws:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-search-photographer-using-antiterrorism-laws-1836683.html
And at the end of last month, there was a BBC photographer who spoke on UK television about his run in with the law:

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