{"id":20202,"date":"2020-07-06T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/06\/facebook-whatsapp-pause-hong-kong-user-data-requests"},"modified":"2020-07-06T22:57:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T13:57:58","slug":"facebook-and-whatsapp-pause-hong-kong-user-data-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20202","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and WhatsApp pause Hong Kong user data requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media sites suspend process as they assess impact of new national security law<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and its WhatsApp messaging service have \u201cpaused\u201d the processing of government requests for user data in Hong Kong, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is pausing such reviews \u201cpending further assessment of the impact of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">security <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">law<\/a>, including formal human rights due diligence and consultations with human rights experts\u201d, a spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/06\/facebook-whatsapp-pause-hong-kong-user-data-requests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media sites suspend process as they assess impact of new national security lawFacebook and its WhatsApp messaging service have \u201cpaused\u201d the processing of government requests for user data in Hong Kong, the company said. WhatsApp is pausing such &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,687,48,53,824,58,479,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-facebook","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-social-networking","category-technology","category-whatsapp","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20202\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}