Police spying meeting increasing resistance

May 20, 2008 11:42 | news |

First came FIT… the presence of Police Forward Intelligence Teams at football match crowds and the like.
Armed with cameras they maintained a high-profile presence to allegedly “deter” acts of hooliganism etc.
But somehow their remit then became extended such that they began to monitor protests, demonstrations, and so forth.
So then came fitwatch… a response on the [...]

Photographing protests

April 7, 2008 03:43 | Miscellaneous |

This is getting ridiculous!
This from FIT snappers snap snappers…
PHOTOGRAPHERS who regularly cover protests now find they are routinely being photographed themselves – by the police. London Freelance Branch member and photographer Jason Parkinson told the Freelance that he and other Branch members including Marc Vallée and Dave Hoffman, “as well as three other photographers, were [...]