{"id":15650,"date":"2017-11-18T02:34:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/18\/germany-bans-childrens-smart-watches-over-surveillance-concerns\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T02:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:34:46","slug":"germany-bans-childrens-smart-watches-over-surveillance-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=15650","title":{"rendered":"Germany bans children&#039;s &#039;smart&#039; watches over surveillance concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms regulator urges parents to destroy the devices, which have been used to listen in on classroom lessonsGermany\u2019s telecoms regulator has banned&nbsp;\u200bthe sale of \u201csmart watches\u201d that can be used by parents to check on their children, saying the devices violated Germany\u2019s strict surveillance laws. The Federal Network Agency said it had already taken action against several firms that sell the watches online but did not name them. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/nov\/18\/germany-bans-childrens-smart-watches-over-surveillance-concerns\" target=\"_blank\">Germany bans children&#039;s &#039;smart&#039; watches over surveillance concerns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms regulator urges parents to destroy the devices, which have been used to listen in on classroom lessonsGermany\u2019s telecoms regulator has banned&nbsp;\u200bthe sale of \u201csmart watches\u201d that can be used by parents to check on their children, saying the devices violated Germany\u2019s strict surveillance laws. The Federal Network Agency said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}