{"id":171005,"date":"2016-07-06T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T10:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171005"},"modified":"2016-07-06T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T10:04:06","slug":"google-hq-targeted-in-violent-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/171005-google-hq-targeted-in-violent-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Google HQ targeted in violent attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have charged a US man\u00a0with arson after he tried to set fire to one of Google&#8217;s Street View cars at its Mountain View campus, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/05\/google-headquarters-attacked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, the man said Google was watching him and that made him upset.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be an isolated incident, according to the report, as the man&#8217;s car\u00a0was spotted when someone shot out\u00a0the windows of\u00a0a Google building on 4 June.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0hooded man was also seen setting fire to a Google car on 10 June.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they arrested the man with\u00a0a weapon case and parts for a pipe bomb in his car.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/170957-google-self-driving-cars-make-it-safer-for-cyclists.html\"><strong>Google self-driving cars make it safer for cyclists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/170445-google-chrome-for-virtual-reality-in-development.html\"><strong>Google Chrome for virtual reality in development<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/170239-googles-faster-cable-system-now-live.html\"><strong>Google\u2019s FASTER Cable System now live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/170085-you-now-have-more-power-over-the-google-ads-you-see-online.html\"><strong>You now have more power over the Google ads you see online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/169761-google-planning-to-launch-new-smartphone.html\"><strong>Google planning to launch new smartphone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with arson and linked to a series of attacks on Google&#8217;s Mountain View campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,167],"class_list":["post-171005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171029,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171005\/revisions\/171029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}