Chinese tech giant Huawei has played an important role in Chinese state surveillance systems, although it has reported in the past that its role was limited to providing technical equipment. This is what the Washington Post reports, which examined over 100 Power Point presentations from Huawei, some defined as “confidential”, from which it emerges how the company’s technologies can help Chinese authorities to identify people through voice and monitor the activities of persons identified as suspicious. Furthermore, from the presentations, posted on a Huawei website before the company removed them at the end of last year, it emerges that the technologies of the Chinese giant can support the Beijing government in the management of ideological re-education, in the organization of work shifts of people in prison and provide business managers with a tool to track customer activity through facial recognition.
“Huawei is not aware of any projects mentioned in the Washington Post article,” the company said in a statement after the newspaper shared some content with representatives from Shenzhen to get comment. “Like other large service providers, Huawei provides cloud platform services that are in line with common industry standards,” the company said.
According to the Post, the discrepancy between Huawei’s public statements regarding the use its customers make of the technologies acquired by the company and the detailed surveillance operations described in the Power Point presentations add to concerns that have long cast doubt on the company. transparency of what is currently the largest supplier of telecommunications materials in the world. This opacity of Huawei regarding its effective proximity to the Chinese government has prompted many Western governments to block or limit supplies for the construction of the new 5G networks. The fear is that Huawei could help the Beijing regime in gathering intelligence information or trade secrets.
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