{"id":10645,"date":"2019-11-01T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/01\/chinese-primary-school-halts-trial-of-device-that-monitors-pupils-brainwaves"},"modified":"2019-11-01T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T05:33:55","slug":"chinese-primary-school-halts-trial-of-device-that-monitors-pupils-brainwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10645","title":{"rendered":"Chinese primary school halts trial of device that monitors pupils&#8217; brainwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trial of the device to monitor children\u2019s brain activity has been halted in east China after complaints from parents<\/p>\n<p>A trial that involved primary school pupils wearing a head-mounted device that monitored their attention spans has been halted in China amid parents\u2019 privacy concerns and fears they could be used to control the children, local media have reported.<\/p>\n<p>The device monitors brainwaves and sent data to the computer system at Xiaoshun central primary School in Jinhua City, Zhejiang province, and some data was shared with parents, according to state-run newspaper Beijing News.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/01\/chinese-primary-school-halts-trial-of-device-that-monitors-pupils-brainwaves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial of the device to monitor children\u2019s brain activity has been halted in east China after complaints from parentsA trial that involved primary school pupils wearing a head-mounted device that monitored their attention spans has been halted in Chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}