UK thugs tried to intimidate a person for expressing opinions that some might find offensive.

It is proper to record any expression of racist ideas _by cops_, because cops have a privileged legal status and a duty to protect all people regardless of their race. A racist cop is doing the job wrong.

But this practice must not be extended to people with no special state-granted authority.

*Sudan's prime minister resigns as pro-democracy protests violently repressed.*

The resignation of the wrecker's head of the FDIC will enable the organization to limit mergers between big banks.

A campaign seeks to demonize the idea of taking a photo of a woman on a public street without asking for her permission first. As is common, the campaign operates by insisting that its position is already generally accepted, and only "creeps" would disagree.

The campaign demands this right only for women and says nothing about whether men should have it too. If it stands for gender bias, it is clearly wrong.

But what if this right applies equally to everyone, regardless of gender? Then it would not be prima facie unjust. Would it be a change for the better?

If this right applies to use of machines that systematically take photos of everyone, we could insist that people stop their Amazon "ring" surveillance cameras from taking our pictures as we walk down the street. Likewise for other surveillance cameras.

It would also prohibit "dashcams" mounted on vehicles that continuously record the scene in front. These cameras can be a form of surveillance, and perhaps their use should be regulated, but prohibiting them entirely seems to be going too far.

If the thug that murdered George Floyd had had this right, he could have ordered the witnesses to stop making video recordings of what he was doing to Floyd. Thugs would just love to have that power. Indeed, they often threaten, attack or frame people that record what they are doing. In Spain they got the right-wing government to criminalize it.

However, it would be legitimate to exclude thugs from this right -- to declare that, because of their special legal powers, they are not entitled to the same rights of privacy that most people deserve.

However, I cannot willingly give up the right of everyone to take photos of scenes in public. Every scene in a city or park is likely to have people in it, even if they are not the reason you take the photo. Probably some are so far that you couldn't possibly ask them for permission, or recognize them with the naked eye, though may you could recognize them by scene enhancement on a photo. There may also be dozens who are much closer, You could hardly take a photo of a monument, a building, a sculpture or a cityscape if you had to get permission from everyone in the scene.

The UAE runs secret Guantanamos in Yemen. It has disappeared and tortured hundreds of people.