{"id":855334,"date":"2026-03-28T04:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/855334\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:51:25","slug":"meps-told-to-leave-phone-at-home-for-china-trip-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/855334\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs told to leave phone at home for China trip \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Parliament spokesperson said that \u201call necessary preventive and reactive measures are in place to ensure the security and safety of MEPs and [European Parliament] staff during official missions.&#8221; Both lawmakers and officials have been given \u201cbriefings, training and assistance regarding security,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament has used burner phones and security pouches to protect devices like mobile phones before, including on a trip to Hungary last year, POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lawmakers-offered-anti-espionage-phone-pouches-in-hungary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Other European Union institutions have beefed up their protections against cyberespionage, too. One senior official, granted anonymity to disclose details about security policy, told POLITICO&#8217;s Brussels Playbook that the Council of the EU had guidelines stating that &#8220;no electronics are taken to the U.S. or China &#8230; When this is not possible, the electronics that are brought back must be wiped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commission officials heading to the United States have also been issued burner phones and basic laptops to avoid espionage risks, the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Parliament spokesperson said that \u201call necessary preventive and reactive measures are in place to ensure the security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1395,2001,13507,4601,13509,6511,2002,2000,299,5187,1699,11579,2817,13510,6512],"class_list":["post-855334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-china","tag-communications","tag-cyber-diplomacy","tag-cyber-espionage","tag-cybercrime","tag-data-protection","tag-espionage","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-hackers","tag-intelligence","tag-malware","tag-privacy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116305008030697802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}