SBS:
Australian War Memorial to remove Chinese-made security cameras over spying fears
The cameras are being removed out of an "abundance of caution".
Chinese-made cameras will be removed from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra by mid-2023. Source: AAP / Lukas Coch
KEY POINTS
- The cameras were manufactured by a company that is part owned by the Chinese government.
- They are set to be removed by mid-2023.
- The Australian War Memorial chair nothing "untoward" had prompted the move.
Almost a dozen Chinese-made security cameras will be removed from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Newly appointed chair of the memorial Kim Beazley confirmed the decision on Wednesday, describing it as showing "an abundance of caution".
The cameras were manufactured by Hikvision which is a partly Chinese government-owned company and one of the largest suppliers of CCTV cameras in the world, the Canberra Times reported.
Eleven cameras made by the company will be removed from the War Memorial by mid-2023.
"It's not just in cameras … you're pretty careful now with pretty well all your electronics," Mr Beazley told media on Wednesday.
"It's not because we've had any notice of anything untoward but it's an abundance of caution."
A War Memorial spokesperson said the institution took its security obligations seriously but did not comment on specific security matters.
Australia was condemned by Beijing when it became the first country in the world to ban Chinese company Huawei from providing 5G technology for the country's wireless networks.
The move was justified as protecting national security but sparked a series of spiralling interactions between the countries that led to diplomatic shut outs and trade repercussions imposed by China.
"Australia wants unimpeded trade with China" . dont think its gonna go the ozzies way.
ReplyDeleteWakakakaka…
ReplyDelete"it's an abundance of caution"
More like it's an abundance of paranoid!
When the backdoor eavesdropping Trojan of Apple iPhone was made known to the world via Merkel's incident what has Oz or all those Yankee doggies taken abundance of caution?
Nothing!
Or been told not to say/act any louder than a pop of flatulence!
After the incident with the Fake "Weather Balloon" caught red-handed , every Western country is worried about the "China Spying".
ReplyDeletein a War Memorial???
DeleteThat's how a know-nothing mfer rants about its frustration of a boring day!
DeleteThere are over 1,000 Hikvision cameras found installed in Australian government offices throughout Australia.
DeleteA nightmare that they need to purge out, given these cameras ar networked to the Internet.
Goodness knows who and which China espionage organisation has been able to watch what is going on in Australian government offices.
In some cases with audio as well
OMG...nightmare..
Such powerful imagination of inconsequential built on lies & know-nothing!
DeleteZilch science but absolutely pure paranoid of the highest biased order.
Wakakakaka…
DeleteOK…OK… the Chinese r doing spying surveillances OPENLY - as in that hugely observable 200ft tall balloon loitering OPENLY for 5 days inside US airspace! (Mmm…is that section of stratosphere high above Yankee territory part of Yankee sovereign right?)
Since spying, by nature is done secretly & w/o public knowledge. Thus this 'spying' balloon is an OPEN infringement of US sovereignty & slaping hard & directly in the Yankee face.
This episode rewrites the definition of spying surveillance! If the Yank said it's spying then it's spying PERIOD.
Similarly, those iPhone eavesdropping of foreign leaders (maybe opposition within USofA) by Yankee intelligence ain't spying BUT personnel protection protocol!