Australia to remove Chinese-made security cameras from national war memorial -reports

FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian walks past a Hikvision surveillance camera installed on a footbridge in Beijing, China December 9, 2021. Picture taken December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's national war memorial will remove several Chinese-made security cameras installed on the premises because officials are concerned they could be used for spying, local media reported on Wednesday.

Eleven surveillance cameras manufactured by Hikvision, partly owned by Chinese state investors, will be removed from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra by mid-2023, according to the Canberra Times. A further 189 cameras at the site are supplied by different manufacturers.