{"id":23323,"date":"2020-10-01T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/01\/drones-fever-goggles-arrests-millions-in-asia-face-extreme-covid-surveillance"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:01:02","slug":"drones-fever-goggles-arrests-millions-in-asia-face-extreme-covid-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23323","title":{"rendered":"Drones, fever goggles, arrests: millions in Asia face &#8216;extreme&#8217; Covid surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus tracking measures handing \u2018unchecked powers\u2019 to authoritarian regimes, activists warn <\/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>Draconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing \u201cunchecked powers\u201d to authoritarian regimes across Asia, human rights experts are warning.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maplecroft.com\/insights\/analysis\/hro-asia-emerges-as-worlds-surveillance-hotspot\/\">a report out today<\/a>, privacy analysts warn that \u201cextreme measures and unchecked powers\u201d brought in to tackle Covid-19 could become permanent features of government across the region, and have an impact on the rights and privacy of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/01\/drones-fever-goggles-arrests-millions-in-asia-face-extreme-covid-surveillance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus tracking measures handing \u2018unchecked powers\u2019 to authoritarian regimes, activists warn Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDraconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing \u201cunchecked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"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":[41,361,50,1069,814,59,53,60,61,474,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-drones-non-military","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-surveillance","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23323","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\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23369,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23323\/revisions\/23369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}