{"id":8338,"date":"2025-04-22T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:38:55","slug":"taliban-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/04\/22\/taliban-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Definitely worth a listen.  &#8220;There are over 90,000 hi-definition CCTV cameras in Kabul, watching everyone\u2019s movements. What are the Taliban using this footage for? BBC Afghan Services&#8217; journalist Mahjooba Nowrouzi was granted exclusive access into the country\u2019s top security control room.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lnb5p6c3w22z\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidoopwl5wqujlaurm5et36txke3fty5l6wxtesmy3rsuihex3fody\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">Very interesting on the Taliban surveillance system in Kabul<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lnb5p6c3w22z?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lnb5p6c3w22z?ref_src=embed\">20 April 2025 at 18:16<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also see: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjev9kzxeqqo\">BBC News, Inside the Taliban&#8217;s surveillance network monitoring millions<\/a>, 27 Feb 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In a crowded control centre, surrounded by dozens of TV screens, the Taliban&#8217;s police force proudly shows off its newly-acquired network of 90,000 CCTV cameras &#8211; used to watch over the day-to-day lives of millions of people.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely worth a listen. &#8220;There are over 90,000 hi-definition CCTV cameras in Kabul, watching everyone\u2019s movements. What are the Taliban using this footage for? BBC Afghan Services&#8217; journalist Mahjooba Nowrouzi was granted exclusive access into the country\u2019s top security control room.&#8221; Very interesting on the Taliban surveillance system in Kabul [image or embed] &mdash; Gary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352,168,167],"tags":[178,341,179],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-afghanistan-internet","category-taliban","tag-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-internet","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}