{"id":76174,"date":"2026-01-31T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/31\/concerns-over-chinese-cctv-cameras-guarding-magna-carta"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:24:00","slug":"alarm-raised-over-chinese-cctv-cameras-guarding-symbol-of-democracy-magna-carta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76174","title":{"rendered":"Alarm raised over Chinese CCTV cameras guarding \u2018symbol of democracy\u2019 Magna Carta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners criticise use of \u2018vulnerable\u2019 devices at Salisbury Cathedral and Parthenon despite their removal from sensitive UK government sites<\/p>\n<p>Security cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly aided the Uyghur \u201cgenocide\u201d and been exploited by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>In letters seen by the Guardian, campaigners called on Salisbury Cathedral, which houses one of four surviving copies of the \u201cpowerful symbol of social justice\u201d, to rip out cameras made by Dahua Technology, based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/31\/concerns-over-chinese-cctv-cameras-guarding-magna-carta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners criticise use of \u2018vulnerable\u2019 devices at Salisbury Cathedral and Parthenon despite their removal from sensitive UK government sitesSecurity cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"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":[6,50,53,3497,58,560,52,930,2052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-human-rights","category-magna-carta","category-technology","category-technology-sector","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","category-uyghurs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76174","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\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76180,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76174\/revisions\/76180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}