{"id":8400,"date":"2019-09-02T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/sep\/02\/chinese-face-swap-app-zao-triggers-privacy-fears-viral"},"modified":"2019-09-02T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:05:40","slug":"chinese-deepfake-app-zao-sparks-privacy-row-after-going-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8400","title":{"rendered":"Chinese deepfake app Zao sparks privacy row after going viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say face-swap app could spread misinformation on a massive scale<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese app that lets users convincingly swap their faces with film or TV characters has rapidly become one of the country\u2019s most downloaded apps, triggering a privacy row.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2019\/jun\/22\/the-rise-of-the-deepfake-and-the-threat-to-democracy\">The rise of the deepfake and the threat to democracy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/sep\/02\/chinese-face-swap-app-zao-triggers-privacy-fears-viral\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say face-swap app could spread misinformation on a massive scaleA Chinese app that lets users convincingly swap their faces with film or TV characters has rapidly become one of the country\u2019s most downloaded apps, triggering a privacy row. Relat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"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":[684,41,50,236,687,351,686,238,478,235,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-digital-media","category-facebook","category-internet","category-internet-safety","category-media","category-privacy","category-social-media","category-technology","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\/8400","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\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}