Not allowed to photo your own kids !!!!!!!

[nicnaksmum]

Did anyone else see this article in one of the sunday telegraph? The government and local councils want to make it illegal to photograph your own children in a public place - parks, school events etc. A welsh council has already tried to implement it but luckily turned it down at a last minute vote as they thought it would be really difficult to implement. This is soooooo crazy ... please go to this link at the 10 downing street website to sign their petition to stop this legislation.

petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/

sorry i can't do a proper link

In Singapore, chewing gum is banned, we are going the same way

signed

wannaBeWhateverIWannaBe - the internet has a lot to answer for, they call it progress but it has opened up a minefield where Child porn is concerned. Personally, I think the sick sod's out there will always find someway of targeting innocent kids to feed their perverted habits. Banning parents from taking photos of their own kids is ridiculous, I am a childminder and I have written consent to photograph any child in my care signed by the parents, this consent also allows me to use these photos for my advertising, in the Who Minds magazine, and on the internet. However, I would not do the latter.

Maybe the government should look more at banning the use of photographs on the internet although I realise this is a huge task and most likely impossible to police. If they tried a little harder to stop the sicko's who set up these sites in the first place us parents would not have to suffer.

I agree with you, that there are more of these people around us than we realise. I don't let my kids (my own or my mindee's) out of my site for a minute. If I saw someone hanging around a kids playground watching the or taking photos of kids that obviously wasn't their parent/carer I would call the police and report the incident.

I would not stop taking photo's of my kids, they are precious to me, kids grow up so quickly and I know only too well, you never know when you could loose them.

Hmmm. Singapore. I wouldn't mind having a government-imposed chewing gum ban, with life imprisonment for anyone who stuck it under seats....

when I take picture of my children in public places I try very hard to only have my child in the picture. not always possible but the majority of the time I can. I remember seeing a dad videoing all the children coming down a slide, even after the children he knew had finished coming down it. I know all the children he was interested in had because at the top messing around were the children from the group I was with. why would you want images of children that are not your own/ friends of yours. I stood and stared at him and he stopped filming. In retrospect I should have challenged him on it.

I had a few friends from Singapore at uni. They always laughed and joked, they said they lived in the ultimate Nanny State, because the Govt. there doesn't trust people enough not to dispose of chewing gum on the streets and trains

How about a "Keep Singapore Tidy" message on all bins and near chewing gum shops, that might do the trick

Hmm, having posted it somewhere else and then got myself flamed to buggery in the process I've been pointed to this article in Amateur Photographer which implies that the petition is less than legitimate.

"flamed to buggery" - excellent expression - lol

... and I thought Mumsnet could be "robust" at times...

no i love picking up expressions like that

i loved one a few months ago someone posted on a politics thread:

"Fighting for Peace is Like F*ing for Virginity"

Brilliant !

signed

No, I meant where I posted it was more "robust" than here

'scuse me ... just need to reline my asbestos jacket....

FFS
What a load of twoddle.

Signed.