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Spain's Interior Ministry contracts Huawei to store judicial wiretaps

Spain's Interior Ministry awarded Huawei contracts worth EUR 12.3 million to manage storage of judicially ordered telephone wiretap data on Huawei OceanStor servers. US and EU officials criticised the arrangement as a security risk.

Reported Editor-read theobjective.com, 7 July 2025

What it does not test. Does not establish the exact award date or contract duration, nor that any EU or US review has changed the arrangement.

How this item counts. This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the European Sovereignty Index.

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-19. How the record is made

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