{"id":449,"date":"2009-04-29T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T09:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=449"},"modified":"2009-04-29T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T09:16:10","slug":"two-hateful-institutions-colluding-to-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Two hateful institutions colluding to corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"

You already know I don’t like Phorm<\/a>. You already know I don’t like the activities of the incumbents in the Home Office<\/a>. Mind-bogglingly, they have been involved in joint “corruption”, according to this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Home Office asked a private company (Phorm) for advice in drafting a document stating the Home Office’s own views on the company’s possibly-illegal internet interception product. Phorm were, it seems, allowed to edit the Home Office statement to meet Phorm’s own requirements. Yes, that’s right. A government’s official views on a controversial project initiated by a private company were prepared by that company<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These two entities should have no such relationship. This is corruption, pure and simple. It’s sadly what you expect from a private company, since they are profit-driven, but this is behaviour that should not be tolerated in government. Please, please, please<\/em> vote them out when the general election takes place next year.<\/p>\n

On a slightly lighter note, and in what at face value looks like a sudden outbreak of common sense, former Home Secretary David Blunkett has said that the ID Cards project should be scrapped<\/a>. He must have been blind not to have seen that this was a sensible position to take previously. (Yes, terrible joke\/pun … apologies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You already know I don’t like Phorm. You already know I don’t like the activities of the incumbents in the Home Office. Mind-bogglingly, they have been involved in joint “corruption”, according to this article. The Home Office asked a private company (Phorm) for advice in drafting a document stating the Home Office’s own views on… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}