{"id":432557,"date":"2025-07-16T12:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/07\/16\/belgio-soldati-in-incognito-per-la-parata-della-giornata-nazionale\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:18:15","slug":"belgian-soldiers-to-appear-incognito-at-national-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/16\/belgian-soldiers-to-appear-incognito-at-national-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian soldiers to appear incognito at National Day parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brussels &#8211; According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belganewsagency.eu\/belgiums-national-day-parade-soldiers-to-appear-incognito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belga<\/a>&nbsp;news agency, most Belgian military personnel will cover their faces during the 21 July parade, Belgium&#8217;s national holiday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defense Minister Theo Francken wants to <\/span><strong>enhance the safety of&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>military staff<\/strong>. As stated in the official communiqu\u00e9, the decision was motivated by increasing threats in the digital sphere. &#8220;The minister wishes <\/span><strong>to shield soldiers from facial recognition and artificial intelligence.<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; The note adds that &#8220;The parade is broadcast publicly, and such footage could be exploited to identify military personnel.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until now, this precaution had been reserved for elite units such as the Special Forces. Now, however, it will apply to all operational personnel participating in the parade. The only exception will be students, such as cadets of the Royal Military Academy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"><span>As early as last week, the Belgian military covered their faces during a ceremony in London. Even back in&nbsp;June, it happened in a farewell to the king who was leaving on a state trip, although on that occasion, it took place inside a military airport.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As early as last week, troops covered their faces during a commemorative ceremony in London to pay tribute to the fallen of the world wars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7207,"featured_media":432543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,30809],"tags":[25801,25745,31771],"class_list":["post-432557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-defence-security","tag-belgian-cat-en","tag-safety-en","tag-soldati-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432558,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432557\/revisions\/432558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}