The UK's quest for security - or rather the quest by spin doctors to make it appear that we are doing everything possible to make the population secure is getting really stupid.
One of the many facets of the Terrorism Act is that the police have been given the powers to stop-and-search photographers in certain areas, but the list of such areas is secret....
So apart from actually passing a law that is unenforceable (think about pics being automatically posted to Flick/Twitter by mobile phones, or using EyeBeam) this is extremely unlikely to have any effect on terrorism...
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