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Local UK City Tender Bans Hikvision, Dahua, Others Because "May Bring Council Into Disrepute"

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Charles Rollet
Dec 03, 2021

A UK local authority, the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, has issued a tender for a small video surveillance project specifying "we have decided not to procure Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, or Kedacom due to their "ethical implications" being "politically sensitive":

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