After criticism, the Road Directorate is now scrapping 170 cameras from Chinese Hikvision. The cameras have been used to monitor motorists on motorways.
Motorists in Denmark must not be monitored with cameras from Chinese Hikvision anyway. After fierce criticism, the Road Directorate is now removing 170 cameras.
This is stated by the Road Directorate according to the Alting.
– The Road Directorate is currently reviewing our roadside equipment to ensure that it complies with applicable guidelines from the Center for Cyber Security, it reads.
In total, the Norwegian Road Administration has spent around DKK 5 million on the 170 cameras and their installation. But the decision to trade with the Chinese has drawn fierce criticism.
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Jens Myrup Pedersen, who is a professor at Aalborg University, believes that it is high time that the Danish authorities raise their eyes to the security risk posed by Chinese camera surveillance.
The concerns and criticism of the Chinese surveillance equipment is due to a Chinese so-called security law. The law means that all Chinese companies must give the communist dictatorship access to data.
That law has previously caused, among others, a Swedish cyber security expert and professor to warn against Chinese-owned Volvo Cars.
– My recommendation is not to tell secrets when driving in a Volvo, Professor Pontus Johnson said back in May to Swedish SVT.
Incidentally, it is not the first time that a decision from the Road Directorate has met with fierce criticism. Last year, the agency spent millions of kroner on advanced road bumps. Road bump, which in at least one case has proven not to work at all.
After Boosted shed light on the matter, i.a. one of the places where the bumps were set up, now cleared again. Read more about it here .
Something completely third is that the police in Denmark will not disclose exactly where the so-called license plate scanners are used to monitor Danish motorists. However, an internet activist has set out to map what the police do not want to deal with. Read more about it here .
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