- Huawei has won a contract to provide digital storage for the Spanish government
- The Chinese technological giant will store and classify the telephone listeners ordered by the Court
- This contrasts to other Western states that now avoid Huawei and Chinese technology
The Spanish government listeners carried out by the agencies of application of the law will soon be administered by the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei thanks to a recently won contract.
The € 12.3 million contract was granted to Huawei after a standard public procurement procedure, and the contract includes the digital storage of judicial listeners ordered, reports. The goal.
HUAWEI will supply its own high performance storage servers, Ocenostor 6800 V5 for the project, which will store and classify intercepted communications and data collected through state agencies.
Mixed messages
The National Police sectors in Spain have worried with the participation of Huawei in confidential systems, with sources that express concern about strategic inconsistencies with respect to China and access to the State to data and a possible threat to national security.
Huawei points out that no rear door has never been identified within its telecommunications team, and the company states that it would not respond to the intelligence requests of the PCCH, or its equipment would be used to spy
The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the least combative towards the presence of Huawei, and Spain remains a close partner within the EU for the company, with several contracts with public administrations.
Interestingly, however, the recent acquisition contrasts with the de facto banishment of Spain of the Chinese telecommunications giant of all critical infrastructure, having reduced the presence of Huawei in the 5G nuclei of the three largest Spanish operators at 0%, according to 0%, according to Euronews.
European and American governments have increasingly distanced themselves from Chinese technology companies in recent months, mainly citing national security concerns and the threat of exfiltrated data.
A ongoing commercial war between the United States and China has seen companies from both sides separated from the opposite market, with market leaders such as the Nvidia chips manufacturer saying that US tariffs mean that it faces a billionaire blow.
