As it turns out, there is no actual Bill being put forward by the government. Mr Taylor is referring to

the ID cards proposed by various bodies which will serve to create an ‘uber class’ of photographer, and restrict the use of cameras by normal citizens.

The fact that there is no legislation in the pipeline has not prevented me from signing the petition. I have personally been harassed by security guards for taking photographs in the City of London with a tripod. It angered me that I was allowed to use my camera hand-held, or indeed to support it on a wall with a beanbag - but that the use of a tripod was prohibited. I believe that anyone should be allowed to take photographs of any public place - regardless of whether they use a tripod to steady the camera!

If you feel the same and you live in the UK then perhaps you should sign the petition too:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/

According to Blaise Aguera Y Arcas, an architect at Microsoft Live Labs:

You can think about what PhotoSynth does as linking images together. Whenever photographs are taken in a common environment it’s as if you form a hyperlink between them. And so now, if you think of the emergent network of hyperlinks between images that can be built by, a crawler, say, going out and searching the whole web: that’s a very powerful idea.

Powerful indeed! PhotoSynth uses image recognition software not only to identify related images, but to place them in a 3D space relative to one another! Throw in some awesome 3D graphics capabilities and you have a very immersive way of browsing that space.

In the videos they talk about how your personal photo collection can become a “worm hole” through which you can access other similar photos. So for example, one thing you can do is take one of your own shots, and then, if you wanted to get a closer look at something in the shot you could zoom into someone else’s close-up photo of the same scene. Or you could find out what is next to your photo - or what is behind it.

What a compelling offering: Photographs + 3D world +The Network Effect.

You have got to check out the videos! Watch the overview first (the link at the beginning of this post), then the demo video (which can be downloaded from here).