{"id":31731,"date":"2012-04-03T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/britain_weighs_proposal_to_allow_greatly_increased_internet_snooping\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T17:02:18","slug":"britain_weighs_proposal_to_allow_greatly_increased_internet_snooping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31731","title":{"rendered":"Britain weighs proposal to allow greatly increased Internet \u201d\u02dcsnooping\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under daily observation from thousands of surveillance cameras mounted everywhere from street corners to taxicabs to public parks, Britons rank among the most-watched people on Earth. But a new government plan is poised to take the gaze of this nation\u2019s security services dramatically deeper: letting them examine the text messages, phone calls, e-mails and Web browsing habits of every person in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csnooping\u201d\u009d proposal set to be presented in Parliament later this year is sparking an uproar over privacy in Britain, fueling a debate over the lengths to which intelligence agencies should go in monitoring citizens \u201d\u201d a debate that has resonance on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/britain-weighs-proposal-to-allow-greatly-increased-internet-snooping\/2012\/04\/02\/gIQAOerQrS_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under daily observation from thousands of surveillance cameras mounted everywhere from street corners to taxicabs to public parks, Britons rank among the most-watched people on Earth. But a new government plan is poised to take the gaze of this nation\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31731\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,94,199,168,114,151,129,95,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}