{"id":853,"date":"2003-10-22T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T23:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/georgia-runs-from-the-matrix\/"},"modified":"2003-10-22T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T23:10:36","slug":"georgia-runs-from-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/georgia-runs-from-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia runs from the MATRIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Register -- Georgia runs from the MATRIX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/55\/33540.html\">Georgia runs from the MATRIX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state of Georgia has pulled out of the U.S. Department of Justice sponsored MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) information collection program, leaving data only on its felons and sexual offenders behind in the Orwellian database. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The criminal, prison, and sexual predator information previously submitted will remain part of the database. This information is relevant to the crime fighting purpose of the pilot project, but <b>personal information of law-abiding citizens is not<\/b>. I feel today&#8217;s decision reflects a proper balance between fighting crime and respecting the right to privacy,&#8221; said Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"for some background info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/archives\/00000334.htm\">mjh&#8217;s Weblog Entry &#8211; 09\/24\/2003: MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia runs from the MATRIX The state of Georgia has pulled out of the U.S. Department of Justice sponsored MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) information collection program, leaving data only on its felons and sexual offenders behind in the Orwellian database. &#8221;The criminal, prison, and sexual predator information previously submitted will remain part of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/georgia-runs-from-the-matrix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgia runs from the MATRIX<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}