Source · Select Committees · Foreign Affairs Committee
Recommendation 24
24
Not Addressed
Paragraph: 86
Intensify efforts to discourage data harvesting technologies and launch national discussion on data release.
Recommendation
The Government should intensify its efforts to discourage the use of superficially harmless technologies (e.g. Hikvision surveillance cameras) which are capable of being used for remote data harvesting. The Government should also launch a national discussion around data release, and data exfiltration, so that the public are better equipped to make responsible decisions about their own data.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response focuses on transnational repression and economic coercion, failing to address the recommendation to intensify efforts against problematic surveillance technologies like Hikvision or launch a national discussion on data privacy and exfiltration.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Paragraph Reference:
86
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government · verbatim extract
Not Addressed
77. The Government partially agrees with the Committee. The Government keeps the security of our personnel, information, assets and estate under constant review. On 24 November 2022, the Government committed to remove certain surveillance technology from sensitive parts of the HMG estate. This policy is focused on equipment produced by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of the People’s Republic of China.
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