If you take nothing else from the article, take this:

I feel like I've just had a telling off. You've changed Pock, since you got on that 50 yacht you've changed.

I've always made it a point to let privilege go to my head and spoil me.

Now out of my way before I run you down in this yacht.

people know that. That comment, or something similar is written in all the articles.

The point that the articles that are against this law is that all it takes is a cop to be suspicious - or at least claim a "reasonable" suspicion.

Photographers in many countries, including here are harassed now. Perhaps illegally, but cops are still stopping photographers for the "crime" of taking a picture, especially when they are the subject of the pictures.

The law just makes it easier for the cop to pull something - not that they couldn't without the law.

This is why suspects are called suspects and not convicts. The role and function of the police is to investigate and act on suspicions.

Take that away and you genuinely do have a police state.

If anything this clarifies and reinforces what the police can't do, not increases what they can.

Just to clarify a point...

Once you step onto a Military base, you no longer have the same rights as someone who is in the public. Cameras, photos, film, all are subject to search, seizure, and deletion if they contain items which the military deems inappropriate.

It's not an issue of personal liberty or right of the press to take photos, it becomes a matter of security. Take a picture of a building, they probably won't stop you. Take a picture of a group of Navy Seals taking off in a plane, don't expect to keep your film. The words 'National Security' will be issued, your camera will be confiscated, and any pictures will be taken away.

And then there are those countries (Guatemala, for example) where the line between police and guerillas are finely drawn, and taking the nice policeman's picture might result in your camera AND YOU disappearing. Parts of Mexico, same way. "Don't shoot" is advice for the people, not the police.

There are any number of accounts of various sorts of arrests and harrassments by police officers who don't wish to be recorded. Although the charges are usually later dropped or dismissed, the photographers are taken out of action in the interim. This happened to a couple of local activists here.

Like "probable cause" the "criminal or terrorist intent" is more often used to cover up incompetence and brutality than any sort of credible public risk.