{"id":105259,"date":"2020-04-13T03:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/snowden-warns-the-surveillance-states-were-creating-now-will-outlast-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-04-13T03:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:49:04","slug":"snowden-warns-the-surveillance-states-were-creating-now-will-outlast-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/snowden-warns-the-surveillance-states-were-creating-now-will-outlast-the-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Snowden warns: The surveillance states we\u2019re creating now will outlast the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/snowden-warns-the-surveillance-states-were-creating-now-will-outlast-the-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governments around the world are using high-tech surveillance measures to combat the coronavirus outbreak. But are they worth it?<\/p>\n<p>Edward Snowden doesn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>The former CIA contractor, whose leaks exposed the scale of spying programs in the US, warns that once this tech is taken out of the box, it will be hard to put it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments around the world are using high-tech surveillance measures to combat the coronavirus outbreak. But are they worth it? Edward Snowden doesn\u2019t think so. The former CIA contractor, whose leaks exposed the scale of spying programs in the US, warns that once this tech is taken out of the box, it will be hard to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}