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Huawei won’t be allowed access to users’ location data even if its equipment is used in the roll out of France’s 5G network, according to Bloomberg, citing the head of the French cyber security agency.
Guillaume Poupard said France is looking at ways to stop the Chinese tech giant’s gear being used in critical parts of the network where key data such as users’ locations and encryption keys are held. Poupard said France is adopting a safety-first approach when it comes to 5G data security.
“We will be very vigilant," Poupard said in an interview in Paris. "It’s likely we will apply a principle of extra precaution and ban ourselves from using gear makers from ‘high-risk countries.’
French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to tread carefully over Huawei as Donald Trump demands U.S. allies impose a complete ban the Chinese tech giant because of the threat it poses to national security. France already has measures in place that have deterred operators from installing Huawei equipment for the critical parts of the existing 4G networks which use different equipment.
Poupard, a former military cryptography engineer, is in charge of approving the architecture and the rules for France’s 5G network. He insisted he doesn’t want to get dragged into a trade war between the world’s economic superpowers. “That’s not what we do,“ he said.
He said that the effective prohibition of Huawei gear would only apply to the most sensitive parts of the network. “In many other segments we could use Chinese equipment,“ he said.