The Spanish Government wants Huawei to monitor for system wiretaps

Date:
Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:10:11 +0000

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The Spanish Government has awarded Huawei the contract despite security concerns.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Huawei has won a contract to provide digital storage for the Spanish Government The Chinese tech giant will store and classify court-ordered wiretaps This contrasts other western states that now largely avoid Huawei, and Chinese
tech

Any Spanish government wiretaps carried out by law enforcement agencies will soon be managed by Chinese telecom giant Huawei thanks to a recently-won contract.

The 12.3 million contract was awarded to Huawei after a standard public procurement procedure - and the contract includes digital storage of judicially-ordered wiretaps, reports The Objective .

Huawei will supply its own high performance storage servers, OceanStor 6800
V5 for the project, which will store and classify intercepted communications and data collected through state agencies. Mixed messages

Sectors of the National Police in Spain have grown uneasy with Huaweis involvement in sensitive systems, with sources expressing concern over strategic inconsistencies regarding China and the states access to data and a potential threat to national security.

Huawei points out that no backdoor has ever been identified within its telecommunications equipment, and the company asserts that it would not
answer CCP requests for intelligence, nor would its equipment be used to spy (unless you count government wiretapping contracts).

Spains PM Pedro Snchez has been one of the least combative towards Huaweis presence, with Spain remaining a close partner within the EU for the company
- holding several contracts with public administrations.

Interestingly enough though, the recent procurement comes in contrast to Spains de facto banishment of the Chinese telecom giant from all critical infrastructure, having reduced Huaweis presence in the 5G cores of the
largest three Spanish operators to 0%, according to Euronews .

European and American governments have been increasingly distancing
themselves from Chinese technology firms in recent months, primarily citing national security concerns and the threat of exfiltrated data.

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