{"id":15969,"date":"2020-03-17T18:34:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/israel-to-track-mobile-phones-of-suspected-coronavirus-cases"},"modified":"2020-03-17T18:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:34:52","slug":"israel-to-track-mobile-phones-of-suspected-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15969","title":{"rendered":"Israel to track mobile phones of suspected coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measure to use counterterrorism technology passed by cabinet, leading to outcry over privacy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel\u2019s government has approved emergency measures to track people suspected or confirmed to have been infected with the coronavirus by monitoring their mobile phones, immediately raising privacy concerns in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet unanimously approved the use of the technology \u2013 developed initially for counterterrorism purposes \u2013 in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/israel-to-track-mobile-phones-of-suspected-coronavirus-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measure to use counterterrorism technology passed by cabinet, leading to outcry over privacyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIsrael\u2019s government has approved emergency measures to track people suspected or confirmed to have b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"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":[1247,1069,1005,222,474,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-israel","category-south-korea","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\/15969","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\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15970,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15969\/revisions\/15970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}