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Hong Kong: Shouts of "do not post it on social media" were heard throughout the protest marches.
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The arrested Telegram (encrypted) app administrator, Ivan Ip, managed a chat of more than 30,000 members. While protesters were starting to gather around Hong Kong's government headquarters, police turned up at Ip's house & arrested him for conspiracy to commit public nuisance.
During the protests, there was the unfamiliar sight of people waiting in line to buy PAPER TICKETS at the city's train station. Usually they use a contactless digital card, named Octopus, but many were avoiding this because they FEARED leaving DIGITAL TRACKS.
Protestors are worried the extradition law is the latest step in Hong Kong being drawn into the murky legal system of mainland China. Beijing has created a sophisticated surveillance state, and has emerged as a world leader in facial recognition technology.
Protesters that spoke with NBC News said the realities of modern surveillance have changed even in the five years since Hong Kong's pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, which flooded the streets for 79 days in 2014.
