âTheir owners or investors have absolutely no access to any data at these visa application centres and no IT infrastructure access,â he said. âVFS Global does not have any servers in China, where applicant data is stored.â
Brun said applicantsâ data was transferred via a fully encrypted private network tunnel managed by VFS Global. This data is then transferred to respective client government servers. âVFS Global welcomes this scrutiny,â Brun said. âIt is essential that client governments and visa applicants have full confidence in the integrity and security of their governmentâs programs and services.â
The former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ward Elcock, told the