UK startup Facewatch, which sells live facial recognition systems to supermarkets so they can catch (alleged) shoplifters, is dropping Hikvision and Dahua for new installs, it told Biometric Update:
The Mail also reports that Facewatch uses Chinese-made cameras from Hikvision, which has been the subject ofextensivecontroversy in the UK and elsewhere.
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