UK Bans Chinese Surveillance Gear From Sensitive State Premises

The UK government will no longer deploy surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies at sites it considers sensitive, minister Oliver Dowden said in a statement Thursday. From a report: 'Since security considerations are always paramount around these sites, we are taking action now to prevent any security risks materialising,' Dowden said. The government's decision was based on a review of current and future possible security risks arising from the installation of visual surveillance systems on the government estate.

China's Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. and Zhejiang Dahua Technology are among the world's leading video surveillance providers and have been on a US blacklist since 2019 because of concerns about them being implicated in human rights violations. Discontent about the lack of safeguards preventing the Chinese government from acquiring data and information from its companies has grown in recent years and other governments have taken steps to limit their exposure.

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