NYC MTA has a secret film file

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MTA investigators are keeping a secret database
of people stopped and questioned for filming or photographing bridges
and tunnels as part of the agency's efforts to thwart terror, the Daily
News has learned.

The information is used to try to determine whether shutterbugs are
simply putting together vacation slide shows - or gathering
intelligence to plot mayhem, law enforcement sources said.

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In at least some cases, the film is kept, sources said, and in all cases the images are reviewed.

"By reviewing the film you can tell if they are tourists or if they are
cluing in, and you can see on certain films they are cluing in on
beams, they are cluing in on security checkpoints," one source said.
"Those are the ones that appear to be more than just casual filming."