Photos in Airports: Beware the rules
Many of us travel with a camera, and take pictures of every place we go. But in recent years especially, it pays to exercise a little discretion when shooting photos inside airports. If you do this in the USA, especially if you take pictures that include a view of security operations, you might be accused of trying to snoop on the government in an attempt to learn the security procedures for a nefarious purpose, like terrorism. It may sound outlandish, but it happens.
Worse still is the situation in some other airports, in smaller countries, where the government combines the civilian airport facility and the military airport facility. This often is the case in smaller or less economically powerful nations. To save money they have one airport for both their military and their commercial planes. But in some countries, if you take photos of anything inside the airport can be in violation of the law, because they have laws against taking photos “inside a military facility”. If you are charged under such laws, you will be charged with espionage.
So when in doubt about the rules and regulations of an airport you’re passing through, the best advice is to abstain from taking photographs. But post cards instead, because as far as we know, nobody has been dragged in front of a firing squad for buying a post card.