By Oyintari Ben
Due to potential security dangers, the British Government ordered its departments on Thursday to stop installing security cameras made in China inside key facilities.
An internal examination of the present and foreseeable security dangers posed by surveillance technologies led to the decision.
Oliver Dowden, a cabinet office minister, said in a written statement to parliament that the study found “further controls are required in light of the threat to the UK and the rising capability and interconnection of these systems.”
He advised ministries to think about replacing these cameras right away rather than delaying an upgrade.
Big Brother Watch, a privacy advocacy group, said in July that Hikvision and Dahua, two Chinese manufacturers, produce the majority of the surveillance cameras used by the British government.
67 British parliamentarians demanded an absolute ban on the two largely state-owned corporations’ products at the same time. They cited privacy issues and connections to Xinjiang’s violations of human rights.
Companies subject to China’s National Intelligence Law may be required to provide information to Beijing’s security services, according to Dowden.
These claims, according to Hikvision, are “completely incorrect.”
Hikvision said in a statement on Thursday that it “cannot send data from end-users to third parties, we do not manage end-user databases, and we do not provide cloud storage in the UK.”.
