The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has urged the Center to impose a complete ban on the use of Chinese-made CCTVs in India.
CAIT requested the government to frame a comprehensive policy to encourage Production Number of CCTVs in the country under Made in India vision Prime Minister,
In a representation sent to the National Secretary General, CAIT, Praveen Khandelwal, Union Minister for Electronics and IT, pointed out that the large-scale use of Chinese CCTV systems in India could pose a major threat to national security. Security By transferring data to servers located outside the country. Therefore, like banning Chinese apps in the past, the use of Chinese CCTV should also be banned immediately.
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He said the United States, Australia and Britain have already banned the use of Chinese CCTV in areas sensitive to national security.
in the absence of someone data protection law or any other enabling law or any surveillance mechanism, the data or information received by such CCTV system can be easily transferred anywhere. Therefore, Parliament should pass a data protection law to ensure complete protection of the country’s data, he said.
CAIT National Secretary SS Manoj urged the government to implement a support policy to increase the manufacturing capacity of existing CCTV manufacturers in India.
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