What is the point of lightly bluring faces, so that we can still see exactly where each person keeps their nose, mouth and eyes?

If you want to make people anonymous, you need to completely remove their faces from your photos.

Any news on what sort of reactions the activists got from other visitors?

Can someone explain why, when people are peacefully protesting, they get phoographed by the police?? Where are our human rights to freedom of speech and expression?? Why do people, who are doing nothing more than expressing their concern at events they are not happy with, have to be photographed like criminals? Democracy? No, just hypocrisy!

It seems like careers fairs demos are spreading all over the place...good to see, and keep the pressure up. Solidarity from Sheffield. :D

Quite simply, anybody who interferes with the "smooth" running of government or commerce is an enemy of the state in the eyes of police\government.

The greatest disease is the apathy of humans, but sadly too many people are prepared to turn a blind eye, which plays into the hands of government and commerce.

Well done for the action in Cambridge and keep up the good work.

why bother blurring faces when the police have already taken photos of each and every person present? What does it achieve, especially when the photographs are of legal activities?

thanks in advance for letting me know

Just because the cops were snooping on everyone present doesn't mean to say that activists' identities should not be protected in other media, because you have to bear in mind that it is not only the police who look at sites like Indymedia, but also other even more reactionary individuals with their own agendas/vendettas.

And don't forget that if you do see a cop pointing a camera towards you at an action/demo, you are perfectly (and completely legally) entitled to;

a) Take their picture as well (if it's in a public place, not on private property).

b) Hide your face, or obscure their line of sight in some way.

c) Walk up to them and ask why they're filming you, and...

d) Under the Freedom Of Information Act, in some cases you can also request a copy of the pictures/footage they're shooting, which may ruffle their feathers a bit.

If enough people do this, it would create lots of extra paperwork for them.

But DO NOT tell them to f*** off (very tempting as it is), because they can arrest you for threatening and abusive behaviour!

Finally, worth bearing in mind that the next time a cop tells you to stop taking pictures, there was an Early Day Motion passed earlier this year, signed up to by a couple of hundred MPs reinforcing peoples' right to be able to legitimately take photos in public places, so you can justifiably say that you are doing nothing illegal and that Parlaiment agrees with you on this point.

One thing- you criticise the university for their booking choices. I don't think this is quite fair- if a company approaches the university, they pay the fee for attendance, and are allowed to come. It would be hard for the university to draw a line between morally acceptable, and morally "bad" companies. And the university funds charities, arts related careers etc to come to recruit. They do not fund the companies we were objecting to.

are any companies "good"?

And this is why we have to go and make a presence, to combat the greenwash, and give a balanced presence at the fair. We should be welcomed, not discouraged with security.
And our success is if the companies- like E-on now has done- realise that they will not come off well overall at graduate recruitment events, and if a few more graduates are swayed into an ethical choice in their future occupation (not necessarily a career)