The UK Cabinet Office will tell central government departments to remove all surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies including Dahua and Hikvision from sensitive sites in an attempt to limit potential intelligence-gathering by Beijing.
Announcing the decision on Tuesday, the Cabinet Office said the government was “committing to publish a timeline for the removal of surveillance equipment produced by companies subject to China’s National Intelligence Law from sensitive central government sites.”
Two people familiar with the government’s plan said the order was directed at Hikvision and Dahua, the world’s biggest makers of video surveillance equipment.