{"id":3412,"date":"2008-05-08T12:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/business-news\/the-new-whopper-burger-with-a-side-of-spies\/3412\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T11:44:57","slug":"the-new-whopper-burger-with-a-side-of-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/business-news\/the-new-whopper-burger-with-a-side-of-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/burgerking.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"burgerking.jpg\" title=\"burgerking.jpg\" \/>PR Watch<\/a> | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about &#8220;the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying,&#8221; citing <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Burger_King\" title=\"reference on Burger King\">Burger King<\/a> Corporation&#8217;s spying on the Student\/Farmworker Alliance and the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Coalition_of_Immokalee_Workers\" title=\"reference on Coalition of Immokalee Workers\">Coalition of Immokalee Workers<\/a>, through <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Cara_Schaffer\" title=\"reference on Cara Schaffer\">Cara Schaffer<\/a> and her private security firm, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Diplomatic_Tactical_Services\" title=\"reference on Diplomatic Tactical Services\">Diplomatic Tactical Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bill of Rights was adopted to protect Americans from the abusive power of their government. I\u2019ve come to believe that we now need a similar set of restrictions to defend against irresponsible corporate power. Today companies like <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Wal-Mart\" title=\"reference on Wal-Mart\">Wal-Mart<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=ExxonMobil\" title=\"reference on ExxonMobil\">ExxonMobil<\/a> have annual revenues larger than the entire budgets of some states, and they employ former agents from the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Secret Service to do security work,&#8221; Schlosser writes. &#8220;John Chidsey, the chief executive of Burger King, knew about the use of Diplomatic Tactical Services. Mr. Chidsey should get a chance to raise his right hand and tell members of Congress why he thinks this sort of behavior is acceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR Watch | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about &#8220;the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying,&#8221; citing Burger King Corporation&#8217;s spying on the Student\/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, through Cara Schaffer and her private security firm, Diplomatic Tactical Services. &#8220;The Bill of Rights was adopted to protect Americans from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,1614],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-3412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-news","7":"category-general","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}