We are awakening to risk of our data being stolen, says Tory MP

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“It’s all about slowly awakening as a country to the risks of our data being stolen.” Alicia Kearns, co-chair of the Conservative China Research Group, says institutions now recognise they have to remove Chinese-owned Hikvision CCTV cameras.

Given that these cameras could be used to spy on British citizens and are linked to human rights abuses, we asked her why this wasn’t enough to stop the British government from buying this equipment.

 

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politicswatch15 I’d settle for them keeping Russians out of the HoL.

Anything but dealing with the major issues in this country, most of which are of your own making.

We've got China watching everything we do and we've got Russia murdering people on our streets. And then of course we have our own police forces reading everything that we write on social media also the wokes being offended by anything we say. FFS anybody else want to have a pop

Yet to see a conclusive reason why. Worked with those systems and with their inferior US competition. US ban is usual protectionism and most of our politicians can’t tie their own shoelaces so what they really understand about the tech is highly debatable!

SarahLudford Only a decade or so late with something so obvious. What a bunch of wastrels our politicians are.

Yet they're fine with handing over our medical information to any private companies who they sell a bit of the NHS to.

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