{"id":22921,"date":"2020-09-21T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/chinese-spy-tech-firm-linked-uighur-abuses-increases-uk-presence"},"modified":"2020-09-21T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:24:13","slug":"chinese-cameras-blacklisted-by-us-being-used-in-uk-school-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22921","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cameras blacklisted by US being used in UK school toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hikvision\u2019s surveillance tech has also been installed in leisure centres in London<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance cameras made by Hikvision, the Chinese company that has been implicated in grave human rights violations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/08\/us-blacklists-28-chinese-companies-and-government-agencies-over-uighur-repression\">has been blacklisted<\/a> by the US government, are being used across the UK, from leisure centres in London to school toilets in west Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>While use of the surveillance cameras had already <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/04\/09\/hikvision-cameras-uk-parliament\/\">rung alarm bells in the British parliament last year<\/a>, use of the cameras has expanded in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic despite allegations by the US government that the company\u2019s cameras have been used to monitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/muslim-minority-teacher-50-tells-of-forced-sterilisation-in-xinjiang-china\">Uighurs and other Muslim minorities<\/a> in China who are being held in internment camps.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/chinese-spy-tech-firm-linked-uighur-abuses-increases-uk-presence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hikvision\u2019s surveillance tech has also been installed in leisure centres in LondonSurveillance cameras made by Hikvision, the Chinese company that has been implicated in grave human rights violations and has been blacklisted by the US government, are b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":786,"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":[50,1069,53,1682,215,478,79,474,67,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-human-rights","category-local-government","category-london","category-privacy","category-society","category-surveillance","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","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\/22921","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\/786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22922,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22921\/revisions\/22922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}