{"id":1002127,"date":"2026-04-09T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002127"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:24:31","slug":"new-hong-kong-law-compels-suspects-to-hand-over-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/new-hong-kong-law-compels-suspects-to-hand-over-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hong Kong law compels suspects to hand over passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Hong Kong will now face a year in jail if they refuse to give police their phone or computer passwords in investigations involving the city&#8217;s strict national security law, the government said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules apply to the implementation of Hong Kong&#8217;s national security law, which was imposed by Beijing in 2020 after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in the financial hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Hong Kong will now face a year in jail if they refuse to give police their phone or computer passwords in investigations involving the city&#8217;s strict national security law, the government said on Monday. The new rules apply to the implementation of Hong Kong&#8217;s national security law, which was imposed by Beijing in 2020 after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in the financial hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}