{"id":37729,"date":"2021-10-06T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/dystopian-world-singapore-patrol-robots-stoke-fears-of-surveillance-state"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:05:11","slug":"dystopian-world-singapore-patrol-robots-stoke-fears-of-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37729","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dystopian world\u2019: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trial of robots to police \u2018undesirable\u2019 behaviour such as smoking or breaching social-distancing rules<\/p>\n<p>Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in \u201cundesirable social behaviour\u201d, adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/dystopian-world-singapore-patrol-robots-stoke-fears-of-surveillance-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial of robots to police \u2018undesirable\u2019 behaviour such as smoking or breaching social-distancing rulesSingapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in \u201cundesirable social behaviour\u201d, adding to an arsenal of surveillance te&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,611,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-robots","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37729\/revisions\/37730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}