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If TikTok is spyware, then what about Chinese IoT?

Is TikTok just the tip of the iceberg? Why businesses need to consider cybersecurity beyond the social media giant.

TechRadar · Apr 11, 2023

US sanctions Chinese firms over alleged repression of Uighurs

Commerce Department says companies are implicated in Beijing’s ‘campaign of repression’ against ethnic minority Muslims.

Al Jazeera · Mar 29, 2023

McCaul, Meeks trigger sanctions review for Chinese firm

WASHINGTON — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they triggered a requirement that the Biden administration determine within four months whether a Chinese surveillance company should be sanctioned for human rights violations against ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang province.

Tribune News Service · Mar 7, 2023

Police and Welsh Government to stop using CCTV cameras linked to China, reports say

The cameras are thought to be used by three Welsh police forces

Wales Online · Feb 16, 2023

Chinese cameras leave British police vulnerable to spying, says watchdog

Warning in surveillance commissioner’s report comes after Chinese CCTV cameras banned from government property

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023

Watchdog warning over police use of Chinese-made surveillance equipment

The findings come amid growing concerns about the threat of Chinese spy balloons which prompted the UK to review its security measures.

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023

Chinese company denies Leinster House cameras pose a 'threat to national security'

Green Party TD Patrick Costello and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties have raised concerns about the presence of Hikvision cameras throughout the Leinster House complex.

Irish Mirror · Feb 13, 2023

Spy worries over Leinster House cameras with alleged Chinese military links

Other governments have stopped using the security cameras that are produced by firms with links to the Chinese Communist Party

Dublin Live · Feb 13, 2023

TD spy fears over Chinese cameras at Leinster House

His plea came just days after Australia announced it was removing security cameras made by firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party from its defence department buildings.

Irish Mirror · Feb 13, 2023

There are 60,000 Chinese-made surveillance systems in Australia – how concerned should we be?

Australian government offices have begun removing more than 900 Chinese-made surveillance cameras, intercoms, electronic entry systems and video recorders. Last week, a government audit found the technology had been installed in more than 250 departments and agencies.

The Conversation · Feb 13, 2023