{"id":960263,"date":"2025-09-10T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960263"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:44:00","slug":"how-us-tech-companies-enabled-chinas-digital-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/10\/how-us-tech-companies-enabled-chinas-digital-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"How US tech companies enabled China&#8217;s digital police state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world&#8217;s largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China&#8217;s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world&#8217;s largest digital surveillance apparatus. Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the United States. Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China&#8217;s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960263","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}