{"id":15586,"date":"2020-03-09T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/09\/the-new-normal-chinas-excessive-coronavirus-public-monitoring-could-be-here-to-stay"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:00:52","slug":"the-new-normal-chinas-excessive-coronavirus-public-monitoring-could-be-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15586","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The new normal&#8217;: China&#8217;s excessive coronavirus public monitoring could be here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the coronavirus has given the Chinese government a pretence for accelerating the mass surveillance<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two months, Chinese citizens have had to adjust to a new level of government intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>Getting into one\u2019s apartment compound or workplace requires scanning a QR code, writing down one\u2019s name and ID number, temperature and recent travel history. Telecom operators track people\u2019s movements while social media platforms like WeChat and Weibo have hotlines for people to report others who may be sick. Some cities are offering people rewards for informing on sick neighbours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/09\/the-new-normal-chinas-excessive-coronavirus-public-monitoring-could-be-here-to-stay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the coronavirus has given the Chinese government a pretence for accelerating the mass surveillanceOver the last two months, Chinese citizens have had to adjust to a new level of government intrusion.Getting into one\u2019s apartment compound or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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":[41,50,1069,914,235,474,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-social-media","category-surveillance","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions\/15589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}