It looks like the Police State steps up a gear if this article from AP is anything to go by:

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/police_seize_films_from_photo_enthusiast_photographer_insists_his_street_photography_pics_in_hull_were_legal_humberside_police_investigate_as_photographer_files_complaint_news_169825.html?aff=rss

I wonder if the unlucky would get their expensive memory card back.

I was considering going out and about Christmas Eve and do some shooting or at the Farmer's Market on Saturday. So if you don't hear of me after then please send me a postcard at Gitmo (that should make those ECHELON whallas sit up and take notice).

I think readers would have gauged my opinion on this and certainly my signature provides an apposite postscript (and yes Adobe I can use that word).