{"id":252,"date":"2005-11-21T02:34:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T10:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=33"},"modified":"2005-11-21T02:34:17","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T10:34:17","slug":"big-brother-by-the-back-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Big brother by the back door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is one of the worlds better known free societies, but in the name of technology we are beginning to lose our freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1279\">90-day debate<\/a> for terrorists was partially justified through the need to investigate hard drives for offending material. <\/p>\n<p>Now we have the possibility (or more likely probability) that we will have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/15\/vehicle_movement_database\/\">national camera network<\/a> designed to monitor number plates. The aim is to ensure everybody has insurance, has taxed their vehicle and  ultimately, it would seem, that everybody keeps within the speed limits.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1338\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1338\" dc:title=\"Big brother by the back door\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1338\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~c\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=opDxoG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~c\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=opDxoG\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=33\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK is one of the worlds better known free societies, but in the name of technology we are beginning to lose our freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1279\">90-day debate<\/a> for terrorists was partially justified through the need to investigate hard drives for offending material. <\/p>\n<p>Now we have the possibility (or more likely probability) that we will have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/15\/vehicle_movement_database\/\">national camera network<\/a> designed to monitor number plates. The aim is to ensure everybody has insurance, has taxed their vehicle and  ultimately, it would seem, that everybody keeps within the speed limits.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1338\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1338\" dc:title=\"Big brother by the back door\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1338\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~c\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=opDxoG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~c\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=opDxoG\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=33\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}