"So he goes to the AGM, he must have had an invite or he wouldn't have got in. He asked a reasonable question. He left.

The plods photograph him and want his name & address, WHY? Did the photograph the rest of the attendees at that AGM? Did the plods get _their_ names & addresses? Then the plods follow him to an underground station and used the LT staff to force him to hand over his ticket for them to get his name from. Bet he has a standard daily railcard or similar without any ID on it.

The stated reason for this. He _MIGHT_ cause problems in the future.

In that case plods take EVERYONES pictures. because anyone & everyone MIGHT cause you problems in the future. "

You better believe they will/are!

What do you think the idea behind ID cards are? It starts off with name, address, then it will have hobbies, what you buy, your friends, income, emails, your browsing activity, religion, sexuality, political opinions! ETC.

Soon, with the introduction of all this facial recognition and biometric (RETINA scans) all they'll need to do is make sure they get your eyeball in the photo, or perhaps just your face, and your whole damn file will pop up.

Sort of like M15. I don't think they have files on everyone, but you better believe they are planning to do this. Hence the reason why I will always post AC.

Because they are more and more starting to put people on 'watchlists' and try to charge you before you actually DO anything wrong.

Although, it is all just a lame subpoena away anyway. (without me even knowing my data has been requested!)