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Following the US, Britain has also banned the use of CCTV from China in key government security facilities, citing national security concerns.
In 2019, the United States banned the acquisition of Chinese-made CCTV by government agencies through the National Defense Authorization Act.
Reporter Kim Won-bae reports.
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The British government has issued guidelines to all ministries banning the installation of CCTV cameras produced by companies subject to China’s National Intelligence Act in buildings where sensitive information could be leaked.
In the case of previously introduced equipment, a recommendation was also included to consider isolating it from the internal computer network and removing it entirely in the future.
Chinese companies are required to cooperate with the demands of the Communist Party-led government under the National Intelligence Law, which came into effect in 2017.
Because of this, security concerns have been raised in the West that Chinese companies may put devices into their devices to secretly steal information and activate them.
Oliver Dowden, head of the Office for Government Policy Co-ordination, said in a letter to the House of Commons, “The decision was made after considering the current and future risks associated with installing video surveillance equipment on government facilities.”
This is in response to a request from the Foreign Relations Committee of the British House of Representatives to ban the sale and use of CCTV manufactured by Hikvision and Dahua Technologies, which has shares in the Chinese government, for reasons such as leaking personal information and violating human rights. worries..
The United States banned the acquisition of products from surveillance camera manufacturers such as Hikvision and Dahua through the National Defense Authorization Act in 2019.
Since then, US government agencies have gone through the process of withdrawing products from these companies.
In the private sector, media reports emerged last month that the US Federal Communications Commission is seeking to ban the sale of video surveillance equipment produced by Chinese companies in the country.
This is Kim Won-bae’s YTN.
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