{"id":52510,"date":"2023-02-11T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/10\/china-spy-balloons-surveillance-high-altitude"},"modified":"2023-02-11T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:55:07","slug":"china-spy-balloon-scare-wakes-up-the-world-to-new-era-of-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52510","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018spy balloon\u2019 scare wakes up the world to new era of surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018poor man\u2019s satellite\u2019 offers a relatively cheap way of exploiting a previously inaccessible high-altitude level of the skies<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Enildo Altamar and his neighbours looked up into the clear morning sky above Arroyo de Piedra, near Colombia\u2019s Caribbean coast, and saw a white orb floating above them, a smaller version of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are used to seeing drones in the area as they monitor local mines but they fly around, whereas this thing was massive and just hung in the air,\u201d Altamar said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/10\/china-spy-balloons-surveillance-high-altitude\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018poor man\u2019s satellite\u2019 offers a relatively cheap way of exploiting a previously inaccessible high-altitude level of the skiesLast Friday, Enildo Altamar and his neighbours looked up into the clear morning sky above Arroyo de Piedra, near Colombia\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3563,"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":[246,50,1652,474,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-colombia","category-surveillance","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","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\/52510","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\/3563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52513,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52510\/revisions\/52513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}