{"id":255,"date":"2004-02-09T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:27","slug":"1984-plus-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"1984 Plus Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years after George Orwell&#8217;s prophetic <i>1984<\/i>, we&#8217;re seeing assaults on privacy approaching, or even exceeding, those in his work of fiction.  I&#8217;m sure this isn&#8217;t news to anybody with an IQ greater than Dubya&#8217;s, but a couple of recent news items brought it to the front of my mind. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/nationworld\/bal-te.protests08feb08,0,2179135.story\" Target=\"Offsite\">incident<\/a> described as the first of its kind in decades, the federal government has ordered Drake University in Iowa to turn over records about a group of anti-war activists.  And, in a scary example of just how much information is accessible even without a court order, <i>Wired News<\/i> reports on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/privacy\/0,1848,62182,00.html\/wn_ascii\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>Swipe<i> exhibit<\/a> at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, which showed patrons how much personal data could be legally swiped by any merchant who &#8220;swiped&#8221; their drivers&#8217; license through a reader. This is one reason I&#8217;m supporting a presidential candidate who voted against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kucinich.us\/issues\/patriot_act.php\" Target=\"Offsite\">Patriot Act<\/a>,  has introduced legislation in Congress to repeal it, and has pledged that one of his first moves as president will be to repeal it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years after George Orwell&#8217;s prophetic 1984, we&#8217;re seeing assaults on privacy approaching, or even exceeding, those in his work of fiction. I&#8217;m sure this isn&#8217;t news to anybody with an IQ greater than Dubya&#8217;s, but a couple of recent news items brought it to the front of my mind. In an incident described as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=255\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1984 Plus Twenty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-47","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}