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by anologwintermut 4753 days ago
Contrary to the blog's URL, photography IS a crime ... if it's of certain military installations. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/795

It probably shouldn't be applied in this case( there seems to be little sensitive information in a photograph of a building, though maybe they didn't want personel identified) , but it can be.

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I can see concern of people being photographed entering and leaving the building, but even then it's silly. If someone wants to know something of these people then just follow them from work. If the person's identity and involvement of what's going on inside needs to be secret then they shouldn't be seen at all entering or leaving the facility.

Also, it isn't that photography "is" a crime but that it "can" be a crime.