{"id":143001,"date":"2015-01-14T17:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143001"},"modified":"2015-01-14T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:46:27","slug":"dont-use-charlie-hebdo-justify-big-brother-data-slurp-data-protection-mep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/dont-use-charlie-hebdo-justify-big-brother-data-slurp-data-protection-mep\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t use Charlie Hebdo to justify Big Brother data-slurp \u2014 Data protection MEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament\u2019s data protection supremo says calls from national leaders to monitor all airline passengers are \u201cplaying into terrorists&#8217; hands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>German MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, who heads the Parliament\u2019s overhaul of EU data protection laws, described the plans for mass storage of PNR (passenger name record) data as Orwellian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEU home affairs ministers are demanding Big Brother measures entailing blanket data retention without justification,\u201d he said. \u201cThis approach is a distraction from the actual measures needed to deal with security and terrorist threats and provides a false sense of security for citizens, at the expense of their civil liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Albrecht, the scheme is actually illegal, as the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled last April that the mass storage of private data, without specific grounds or time limit, is contrary to the EU charter of fundamental rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/01\/14\/dont_use_charlie_hebdo_to_justify_your_orwellian_aims_says_data_protection_mep\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament\u2019s data protection supremo says calls from national leaders to monitor all airline passengers are \u201cplaying into terrorists&#8217; hands\u201d. German MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht, who heads the Parliament\u2019s overhaul of EU data protection laws, described the plans for mass storage of PNR (passenger name record) data as Orwellian. \u201cEU home affairs ministers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}