Just last week, UK police in Wales decided to drop Hikvision. Now, local authorities (Councils) in the UK county of Kent have began removing Hikvision, the BBC reports:
Some of Kent's councils have said they will stop using CCTV cameras made by a company which has links to the Chinese government.
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