Comments on: Translink to Photographers: you are criminals!

By: professional name badges

professional name badges — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:59:27 +0000

Enjoyed the Photography Translink Scaremonger post. Not many blogs worth bookmarking but this is going on Delicious now!

By: Richard Smith’s Blog » Blog Archive » Civility 2

Richard Smith’s Blog » Blog Archive » Civility 2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:57:49 +0000

[...] I heard about Translink’s latest campaign to create fear and suspicion among the public, I almost didn’t believe it. Of course we hear about this happening in England and the US, [...]

By: apeman

apeman — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:39:12 +0000

More on this at CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/03/20/bc-surveillance-translink.html

By: apeman

apeman — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:30:09 +0000

Update:

The BuzzerBlog has joined the Vancouver Strobist discussion on these ads, and it sounds like it is an honest mistake by the translink marketing department.

BuzzerBlog has some more info on the new Translink security approach:
http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php/2008/12/police-dogs-text-message-crime-reporting-skytrain-ramps-up-security-measures-based-on-new-research

The Flickr Discussion is here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/511073@N24/discuss/72157615505511301/

By: Tarantado

Tarantado — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:06 +0000

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin

We are certainly not our neighbours to the south, but this quote is most definitely appropriate for us too.

I’m not a lawyer but see http://ambientlight.ca/laws.php for a (hopefully accurate) summary of Canadian laws RE: photography.

By: apeman

apeman — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:05:36 +0000

Hi Ken -

Thanks for your comment, but just to be clear: If I want to take a pictures of Skytrain stations, etc. Will I be arrested? I’ve always been interested in Skytrain and its technology.

You know, your poster would make more sense if the person in the picture was using a camera phone to take a picture of a security camera. If a suspected terrorist wanted to take pictures of Skytrain without being caught, I don’t think they would use an SLR!

I still think that the campaign is one step forward to creating a nanny state, which is what terrorists want. The US has turned into a police state, so has London, and they are no safer than they were before.

By: Ken Hardie

Ken Hardie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:26:45 +0000

That’s the spirit…let’s create a nice environment for people planning to blow things up. Did you know that an investigation into groups with terrorist affiliations in the US turned up a collection of stills and videos of SkyTrain?

The message in the campaign is simple…if you see someone doing something like that, report it. If the person has a reasonable purpose for taking pictures of wiring, security devices and other technical parts of the operation, all well and good.