{"id":664,"date":"2009-01-12T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-01-12T15:31:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:31:50","slug":"british-gov-to-hack-citizens-pc-without-warrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"British Gov to Hack Citizen&#8217;s PCs Without Warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article5439604.ece\" target=\"_blank\">London Times<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal computers without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which follows a decision by the European Union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a coach and horses\u00e2\u20ac\u009d through privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking is known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153remote searching\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s PC at his home, office or hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article5439604.ece\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: London Times THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}