{"id":1457,"date":"2007-01-14T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/blairs-latest-anti-liberty-wheeze\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T14:39:40","slug":"blairs-latest-anti-liberty-wheeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/blairs-latest-anti-liberty-wheeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair&#8217;s latest anti-liberty wheeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article2152474.ece\">very, very small note<\/a> in the Independent on Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[tag]Tony Blair[\/tag] will propose this week to change the law to allow government departments to share personal data, including people&#8217;s medical records and tax details&#8230; The Prime Minister is likely to argue that allowing personal files to be shared will speed up and simplify Whitehall decision-making.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well THAT&#8217;s alright, then. As long as it makes life easier for politicians and civil servants, who cares if any Sir Tom, Sir Dick or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Humphrey\">Sir Humphrey<\/a> in Whitehall and Westminster can check the last time you had an STD test, what variant of MRSA you caught when having your &#8216;flu jab at the local hospital, or what types of cancers you&#8217;re most at risk from? If you&#8217;ve got nothing to hide, you&#8217;ve got nothing to fear. Etc. Obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very, very small note in the Independent on Sunday: &#8220;[tag]Tony Blair[\/tag] will propose this week to change the law to allow government departments to share personal data, including people&#8217;s medical records and tax details&#8230; The Prime Minister is likely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/blairs-latest-anti-liberty-wheeze\/\">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":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair","category-civil-liberties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","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=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}