This letter was sent to Dahua's VP Of Sales Wayne Hurd and is being shared publicly below and on LinkedIn:
Dear Dahua employees,
Dahua has been caught specifying ethnic/racial tracking 3 different times for 3 different product categories (including cameras, servers, and SDK), from Dahua's own documentation (see the evidence). This racist and oppressive technology cannot be tolerated nor condoned.
Resign immediately. Take a stand against Dahua's human rights abuses and ongoing deception.
As people who work in this industry, you know that when a manufacturer specifies functionality in its own public documentation, it intends to deliver them, whether it works well or not. Dahua's excuse, if you believe it, is despite specifying this functionality over and over again, that they did not develop it. At best, you work for a company that repeatedly specifies racist and oppressive technology.
Worse, Dahua qualified its denial by saying they "have not and never will develop for commercial use any solutions". In other words, Dahua has developed this for government use - the authoritarian Communist Party of China regime's oppression of racial minorities that the UN declared to be "serious human rights violations".
Your employment at Dahua is a signal to the industry, to dealers, and to distributors that this is acceptable. Do the right thing and resign immediately.
You might lose some money today but think about the respect and self-respect you will earn from taking a stand, think about how you will view this a decade from now, to yourself, to your family, and to your colleagues.
If I or anyone at IPVM can be of assistance to you, please contact us (john@ipvm.com) and we will confidentially help.
Take a stand against human rights abuses and Dahua's ongoing deception. Resign from Dahua.
