{"id":93141,"date":"2019-07-05T03:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/china-snares-tourists-phones-in-surveillance-dragnet"},"modified":"2019-07-05T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:04:35","slug":"china-snares-tourists-phones-in-surveillance-dragnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/china-snares-tourists-phones-in-surveillance-dragnet","title":{"rendered":"China Snares Tourists\u2019 Phones in Surveillance Dragnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-snares-tourists-phones-in-surveillance-dragnet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 China has turned its western region of Xinjiang into a police state with few modern parallels, employing a combination of high-tech surveillance and enormous manpower to monitor and subdue the area\u2019s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the digital dragnet is expanding beyond Xinjiang\u2019s residents, ensnaring tourists, traders and other visitors \u2014 and digging deep into their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>A team of journalists from The New York Times and other publications examined a policing app used in the region, getting a rare look inside the intrusive technologies that China is deploying in the name of quelling Islamic radicalism and strengthening Communist Party rule in its Far West. The use of the app has not been previously reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2014 China has turned its western region of Xinjiang into a police state with few modern parallels, employing a combination of high-tech surveillance and enormous manpower to monitor and subdue the area\u2019s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities. Now, the digital dragnet is expanding beyond Xinjiang\u2019s residents, ensnaring tourists, traders and other visitors \u2014 and digging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93141","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\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}