{"id":116550,"date":"2013-12-10T16:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=116550"},"modified":"2013-12-12T02:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:42:23","slug":"worlds-leading-authors-state-surveillance-of-personal-data-is-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/worlds-leading-authors-state-surveillance-of-personal-data-is-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"State Surveillance Of Personal Data Is Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500 of the world&#8217;s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state\u00a0surveillance\u00a0revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/10\/surveillance-theft-worlds-leading-authors?CMP=fb_gu\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the Guardian reports<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Author-composite-includin-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-116551\" alt=\"Author composite including Tom Stoppard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Author-composite-includin-006.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Author-composite-includin-006.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Author-composite-includin-006-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":116551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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