{"id":1250,"date":"2006-05-12T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/12\/114742445103101940\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T14:01:35","slug":"id-scare-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/id-scare-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"ID scare stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have thought that now they&#8217;ve got the ID cards bill through parliament they&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4762937.stm\">shut up already with the nonsense scare-stories about identity theft<\/a>. Either that or, if it&#8217;s currently so leniently punished as is being claimed, you&#8217;d think they might try the cheaper option of increasing fines and sentences before forking out several billion on a technological white elephant that won&#8217;t even solve the problem. Ho hum&#8230; (You might also ask how centralising all <s>your eggs<\/s> this information <s>in one basket<\/s> on one centralised database will make it more secure, but still&#8230;)Elsewhere, a government minister demonstrates, as if we needed any more proof, that using Star Trek as the basis for currently available crime-fighting technology is not a good way to formulate policy. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4761519.stm\">They simply have no idea what is possible.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have thought that now they&#8217;ve got the ID cards bill through parliament they&#8217;d shut up already with the nonsense scare-stories about identity theft. Either that or, if it&#8217;s currently so leniently punished as is being claimed, you&#8217;d think they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/id-scare-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}