{"id":3510,"date":"2011-03-28T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:07","slug":"cell-phone-panic-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-panic-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Panic Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girl.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-706\" title=\"girl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girl.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-706 lazyload\" title=\"girl\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/girl.jpg\"><\/a>The United States government is developing a \u201cpanic button\u201d system to help freedom campaigners in foreign countries ranging from China to numerous places in the Middle East, by allowing them to receive alerts and wipe out their entire address books should security forces take their cell phone.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to keep below the radar on this, because a lot of the people we are working with are operating in very sensitive environments,\u201d notes the assistant US secretary for human rights and labor, Michael Posner.&nbsp; Cell phones, together with the internet via such sites as Facebook and Twitter, have played a crucial role in propelling pro-democracy movements in countries such as Egypt and China, and the US has now devoted around fifty million dollars to helping activists in such nations get around firewalls imposed by their repressive 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