{"id":9858,"date":"2020-10-02T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:00:45","slug":"concerns-raised-over-use-of-chinese-technology-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/concerns-raised-over-use-of-chinese-technology-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised over use of Chinese technology in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A local group has raised concerns over the use of Chinese technology by Sri Lankan mobile companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Information Technology Society of Sri Lanka (ITSSL) said that using Chinese technology for telecom and broadband operations could pose a threat to National security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITSSL said in a statement that Information Technology plays a vital role in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The local organization noted that technology is widely used in Sri Lanka to collect and store sensitive information, including bank details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITSSL urged intelligence agencies to pay close attention to the use of Chinese technology by telecom and other State agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government was also urged to minimize the use of Chinese technology in highly sensitive operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local group has raised concerns over the use of Chinese technology by Sri&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}