Candid Camera Horse has Already Bolted ; Electronic Imagery has Been in the News This Week, What with Google's Controversial Street Cameras and Mobile Phone Footage of Riot Police Dealing with Protesters. Some of the Imagery Is Welcome, Some Is Not - but Martin Hesp Thinks You Can't Have One Without the Other

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HO owns a view? It sounds a stupid question, but it is one that has been repeated dozens of times in the media during the past couple of W weeks. Cameras of all types and sizes have been in the news, from the Google car roof-top Street View monitors to mobile phones that capture images of policemen doing what they perhaps shouldn't.

The "who owns a view" question causes me to recall a rather strange and unwarranted incident that occurred when I was working with a film crew many years ago on Exmoor.

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Candid Camera Horse has Already Bolted ; Electronic Imagery has Been in the News This Week, What with Google's Controversial Street Cameras and Mobile Phone Footage of Riot Police Dealing with Protesters. Some of the Imagery Is Welcome, Some Is Not - but Martin Hesp Thinks You Can't Have One Without the Other

We'd stopped in a lay-by at Countisbury to get a shot of the much- celebrated panorama of Lynmouth Bay and vertiginous Little Switzerland when a man who claimed to be a manager from the National Trust pulled up to harangue us.

"Who gave you permission to film here?" he demanded. "Don't ...

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