A study found that US warnings about Huawei’s espionage activities failed to prevent governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America from hiring Chinese technology groups to provide cloud infrastructure and e-government services.

The “Financial Times” saw that the report of the Washington-based think tank CSIS identified 70 such service transactions in 41 countries between 2006 and April this year between Huawei and the government or state-owned enterprises.

Cloud infrastructure usually refers to the installation of data centers, while e-government mainly involves automated management functions such as licensing, healthcare, legal records, and other government processes.

The study stated: “Huawei’s cloud infrastructure and e-government services are processing sensitive data related to citizens’ health, taxation, and legal records.”

The study added: “As Huawei takes a place in the competition to provide services to the government and state-owned enterprises, it is establishing a strategic position that can provide the Chinese authorities with valuable intelligence and even compulsory leverage.”

Most of the countries that conduct such transactions with Huawei are located in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, 77% of which are classified as “non-free” or “partially free” by Freedom House. A democratic monitoring organization funded by the U.S. government.

The CSIS report said: “The surge in deals announced since 2018, including several announcements during 2020, is clear that warnings about Huawei’s security risks cannot convince policymakers in developing countries.”

Huawei said in a statement: “As a cloud infrastructure and service provider, Huawei does not own or control any customer data.”

“All customer data is owned and fully controlled by our customers.”

The company added: “Network security and user privacy protection are still Huawei’s top priorities.”

The U.S. has repeatedly accused Huawei Spying the Chinese government, Sometimes it is to use the telecommunications “back door” in the equipment. Washington also placed Huawei and many of its branches in the “Entity list“, limiting the sale of key technologies such as semiconductors to the company.

China’s repeated ignorance of these accusations is groundless and accuses the United States of imposing sanctions on Huawei as an “abuse of state power.”The Chinese champion is the world’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and has to cut back Smartphone production due to shortage of supply.

The CSIS report cited several examples of security vulnerabilities related to Huawei Cloud infrastructure and e-government services.A 65-page report funded by the Australian government found that Huawei had built a data center for Papua New Guinea, which included Obvious error This makes the facility vulnerable to hacker attacks.

Huawei also won the 2012 contract to install communications equipment at the headquarters of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa.Subsequently, the African Union officials Accused of China Hacking the building’s computer system and downloading confidential data every night for five years.

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