Commentary China’s Huawei telecommunications company has been accused of spying on important Pakistani national security information through a “Safe Cities” anti-crime project in Lahore, according to new allegations. The accusations, from a small U.S.-based firm called Business Efficiency Solutions LLC (BES), are in a lawsuit filed on Aug. 11 in California. The claims are the latest indications that China is convincing the world to pay Huawei to get spied upon. Democracies and other countries that value their privacy should immediately strip Huawei technology from their systems, Huawei payees from their employees; and source only from trusted vendors in allied and friendly countries. “Safe Cities” projects are sold to cities as a way of fighting crime, and typically involve high-tech surveillance, including through facial-recognition cameras. But Huawei allegedly established a duplicate system in China capable of accessing Lahore data, including personal communications of Pakistani citizens, without proving the consent of Pakistani …
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