{"id":457878,"date":"2010-03-22T05:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100321\/2131548645.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-22T05:54:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:54:23","slug":"just-as-it-tries-to-kick-people-offline-the-british-govt-wants-to-move-all-public-service-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457878","title":{"rendered":"Just As It Tries To Kick People Offline, The British Gov&#8217;t Wants To Move All Public Service Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as it considers kicking people offline via the Digital Economy Bill, it looks like the UK is getting set to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/7484600\/Every-citizen-to-have-personal-webpage.html\" >move all sorts of government services online<\/a> &#8212; giving every UK citizen a unique webpage, where they can access all sorts of personalized gov&#8217;t services.  Now, some folks are (perhaps reasonably) concerned about privacy and the threat of data breaches, but it seems like an even bigger issue is the conflicting messages the UK gov&#8217;t seems to be sending in threatening to remove people&#8217;s internet connections at the same time it&#8217;s trying to get them to do more and more online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100321\/2131548645.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100321\/2131548645.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100321\/2131548645&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=8bffcbee985fe60f62facdbc41608e62&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=8bffcbee985fe60f62facdbc41608e62&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=jYRBdAsVMVQ:PpuBdqhkbwA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=jYRBdAsVMVQ:PpuBdqhkbwA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=jYRBdAsVMVQ:PpuBdqhkbwA:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/jYRBdAsVMVQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as it considers kicking people offline via the Digital Economy Bill, it looks like the UK is getting set to move all sorts of government services online &#8212; giving every UK citizen a unique webpage, where they can access all sorts of personalized gov&#8217;t services. Now, some folks are (perhaps reasonably) concerned about privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}