The AUS-based contractor alleges that Huawei Technologies Co pressured him to set up a back door for Pakistan’s law enforcement agency.
With this, the Chinese specialist is alleged to be able to catch sensitive information in Pakistan, such as national ID card records, tax records and more.
The allegations were made in a California court hearing on Wednesday. A follower is a company based in California called Business Efficiency Solutions LLC, or BES.
In court, BES states that Huawei’s required it to establish a system in China that gives Huawei’s unauthorized access to sensitive information from the Lahore safe surveillance project.
The BES initially sought Huawei’s approval from the Pakistani authorities but was later deceived into believing that Huawei had received the permit, a new report said.
As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the case follows a long-running legal dispute between the two firms. Huawei and BES first worked together in Lahore safe in 2016.
Huawei hired BES to provide software and other project resources, but relations between the firms were strained and both companies filed lawsuits in Pakistan, rushing for a day. BES no longer exists since the fall.
One of these many services was to build a Data Exchange System, or DES – a database that encompasses sensitive information.
This information can range from national ID card records and immigration registrations to tax and criminal records.
In a recent court case in California, BES alleges that after installing the DES in Lahore, Huawei sought to install a dual DES in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou.
According to BES, this DES could serve as the back door of the original DES in Lahore, giving Huawei direct access to data collected in Pakistan.
The Punjab Safe Cities Authority, which oversees the Lahore project, has begun investigating BES allegations.
An official requested an explanation from Huawei and placed a data security check on it. Although it is reported that there is no evidence that any data theft by Huawei has emerged so far.
A Huawei spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that the company “respects the property of others,” and there is no evidence that Huawei has ever installed and used any back door on its products.
