{"id":504,"date":"2005-12-20T02:07:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T02:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/504"},"modified":"2005-12-20T02:07:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T02:07:28","slug":"big-brother-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/504","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/australians-are-an-obedient-people--but-for-how-long\/2005\/12\/18\/1134840742464.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jane, from Coogee, was surprised to find three police on her bus asking to inspect mobile phones. Each took a phone at random and scrolled through messages for five or ten minutes. Everyone obeyed. &#8220;The people were perfectly friendly about it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I thought it was a bit weird and a breach of privacy. But I didn&#8217;t say anything. Nobody did.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not about terrorism, it&#8217;s about potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2005\/12\/18\/1134840742414.html\">racial violence<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still that nasty abuse-of-rights-in-the-name-of-safety-from-unknown-boogeymen vibe. Of course, such flagrant violations of our rights without a court order could never happen in the US. In the US, we&#8217;d never even <i>know<\/i> they&#8217;d read our text messages without a court order until we  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/16\/politics\/16program.html\">read about it  in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ocschwar\/120361.html\">Omri<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/australians-are-an-obedient-people--but-for-how-long\/2005\/12\/18\/1134840742464.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jane, from Coogee, was surprised to find three police on her bus asking to inspect mobile phones. Each took a phone at random and scrolled through messages for five or ten minutes. Everyone obeyed. &#8220;The people were perfectly friendly about it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I thought it was a bit weird and a breach of privacy. But I didn&#8217;t say anything. Nobody did.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not about terrorism, it&#8217;s about potential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2005\/12\/18\/1134840742414.html\">racial violence<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still that nasty abuse-of-rights-in-the-name-of-safety-from-unknown-boogeymen vibe. Of course, such flagrant violations of our rights without a court order could never happen in the US. In the US, we&#8217;d never even <i>know<\/i> they&#8217;d read our text messages without a court order until we  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/16\/politics\/16program.html\">read about it  in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/ocschwar\/120361.html\">Omri<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}