{"id":550,"date":"2006-01-21T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2006-01-21T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T18:27:08","slug":"cheney_and_google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/cheney_and_google\/","title":{"rendered":"cheney and google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(this is a follow-up to ben&#8217;s recent post &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/the_book_is_rea.html\">the book is reading you<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\ni rarely read Maureen Dowd but the headline of her column in today&#8217;s New York Times, &#8220;Googling past the Graveyard,&#8221; caught my attention. Dowd calls Dick Cheney on the carpet for asking Google to release the search records of U.S. citizens. while i&#8217;m horrified that the govt. would even consider asking for such information, i&#8217;m concerned that the way this particular issue is playing out, Google is being portrayed as the poor beleaguered neutral entity caught between an over-reaching bureaucracy and its citizens.  Cheney will expire eventually. in the meantime Google will collect even more data. Google is a very big corporation, who&#8217;s power will grow over time. in the long run, why aren&#8217;t people outraged that this information is in Google&#8217;s hands in the first place. shouldn&#8217;t we be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(this is a follow-up to ben&#8217;s recent post &#8220;the book is reading you.&#8221; i rarely read Maureen Dowd but the headline of her column in today&#8217;s New York Times, &#8220;Googling past the Graveyard,&#8221; caught my attention. Dowd calls Dick Cheney on the carpet for asking Google to release the search records of U.S. citizens. while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,755,767,1060,1516],"tags":[2516],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheney","category-google","category-government","category-libraries-search-and-the-web","category-privacy","tag-google-privacy-cheney-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}