{"id":10727,"date":"2019-11-04T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/china-wildlife-park-sued-for-forcing-visitors-to-submit-to-facial-recognition-scan"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T04:52:15","slug":"china-wildlife-park-sued-for-forcing-visitors-to-submit-to-facial-recognition-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10727","title":{"rendered":"China wildlife park sued for forcing visitors to submit to facial recognition scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law professor takes action against Hangzhou safari park, questioning why the tourist spot would need such data <\/p>\n<p>A Chinese wildlife park has sparked outcry after making visitors submit to facial recognition scanning, with one law professor taking it to court.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Guo Bing is taking action against Hangzhou safari park, after it replaced its existing fingerprinting system with the new technology.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/china-wildlife-park-sued-for-forcing-visitors-to-submit-to-facial-recognition-scan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law professor takes action against Hangzhou safari park, questioning why the tourist spot would need such data A Chinese wildlife park has sparked outcry after making visitors submit to facial recognition scanning, with one law professor taking it to c&#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":[41,50,891,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-facial-recognition","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","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=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}