In a precautionary move, the British authorities launched a decision ordering the official departments in the country to stop installing Chinese -made surveillance cameras in the “sensitive sites” of government organizations’ departments.
The move comes in the midst of the government’s pursuit of strongerly for China and its companies for security reasons.
Last week, the British authorities prevented a China -owned company from acquiring a majority stake in the Neusport Wifer Fab factory, the largest semiconductor manufacturing company in Britain.
According to the “Big Prix Watch” human rights group, most of the governmental organizations in Britain use surveillance cameras made by Hikvision or “Dahwa”.
In July, a group of 67 London Representatives and Words urged the ban on the sale and use of monitoring equipment made by the two companies, whose products are believed to be complicit in human rights violations against the Uighur minority in Xinjiang.
However, the government in its decision Thursday did not impose a complete ban on the two companies.
However, she urged not to use “visual monitoring systems” made by companies on which Chinese law is required to share intelligence information with the security services in Beijing.
The government stressed that such cameras should not be linked to “basic networks” in government departments, and that the ministries must be studied to replace them instead of waiting for scheduled updates.
A governmental review concluded that “in light of the threat to the United Kingdom and the increasing capabilities of these systems, additional controls are needed,” according to what the Minister of State Oliver Davidn announced before Parliament.
He added, “Therefore, instructions were issued to the departments to stop publishing such equipment in sensitive sites,” noting that they are “produced by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of the People’s Republic of China.
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After a cameras of Hikvision Company in June 2021, the Minister of Health at that time, Matt Hancock, died while kissing him, in violation of the restrictions imposed to contain Kofid, ministries in the United Kingdom took the initiative to remove the equipment of this company from its headquarters.
The incident, which the camera monitored the minister, forced the resignation.
Earlier, the US Department of Justice revealed what it described as a major espionage process that the Chinese government tried to implement across 13 people, including 10 working directly for the Chinese Intelligence Authority, including smuggling people and equipment from American institutions, in addition to intervention in order to undermine a rule
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