{"id":784,"date":"2005-09-09T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/112625800652675800\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:05:42","slug":"112625800652675800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/112625800652675800\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Charles Clarke!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Awwww! Poor Charles Clarke! His massively intrusive plans for poking into every aspect of our insignificant lives seem to have run into a bit of opposition: the European Telecommunications Network Operators’s Association has branded Charlie’s data retention plans illegal, dubbed their effectiveness unproved, and estimated the cost to be prohibitive (see, e.g., The Guardian<\/a>). Meanwhile MEPs have accused the Blair government of “exploiting the fear factor” and dishing out “summary justice”<\/a>. Blair has been dubbed Big Brother<\/a> by one French newspaper (and no, that sadly doesn’t mean he’s going to get his flabby mantits out and shove a wine bottle up his jacksy), while Germany, France and Denmark are all lined up in opposition. Good.<\/p>\n

Still, no one yet seems to have picked up on Clarke’s comments about ID cards<\/a> – that’s where this is really heading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awwww! Poor Charles Clarke! His massively intrusive plans for poking into every aspect of our insignificant lives seem to have run into a bit of opposition: the European Telecommunications Network Operators’s Association has branded Charlie’s data retention plans illegal, dubbed … Continue reading →<\/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":[24,13,2],"tags":[183,178,43],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-eu","category-labour","tag-civil-liberties","tag-eu","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}