{"id":236,"date":"2007-01-01T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/01\/01\/telegraph_readers_aghast_at_us_email_snoop_demand"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:33:22","slug":"telegraph_readers_aghast_at_us_email_snoop_demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/01\/01\/telegraph_readers_aghast_at_us_email_snoop_demand","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph readers aghast at US email snoop demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telegraph | Comment | Sinister security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/01\/01\/dl0102.xml\">Telegraph Comment: Sinister security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly hostile response from the London <em>Telegraph<\/em>&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/01\/01\/do0101.xml\">&quot;Digital Democrats&quot;<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MWMNVNCRIGBPLQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=\/news\/2007\/01\/01\/nusnoop01.xml\">news of a deal<\/a> between the US Homeland Security department and un-named Brussels Bureaucrats.  Admittedly this comes from Europe, including France and Germany which have a recent record of <em>not<\/em> getting involved in US misadventures, but which also has a less liberty-oriented political culture than the UK (or the USA).  Comments include the observation that the &quot;special relationship&quot; is a one-way thing (which is well-known in any case), and that country is off their holiday lists.  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/30\/pointless_alliances_with_ignor\">This<\/a> is the last entry I wrote on that so-called relationship.)<\/p>\n<p>However, the measures are easily circumvented (unless they plan to stop us flying to Canada and entering the USA by land); all one needs to do is acquire a credit card that one uses only on American business, and an additional email address, and <em>voila<\/em>, those emails you sent to plan that big terrorist hit are safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph Comment: Sinister security Surprisingly hostile response from the London Telegraph&#39;s &quot;Digital Democrats&quot; to the news of a deal between the US Homeland Security department and un-named Brussels Bureaucrats. Admittedly this comes from Europe,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil_liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-3O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42168,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/42168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}