Never Used Hikvision Facial Recognition Despite Ecuador Paying ~$1.8 Million
Ecuador's capital paid $1.787 million to build a facial recognition system with 203 Hikvision cameras, but never connected it to a database of suspects' faces, sparking a scandal in Ecuador.
Inside this note, IPVM examines this case, which is now mired in corruption allegations, and what it shows about difficulties in implementing facial recognition on the ground.
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Hikvision ******* / ******* ********
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PTZ ****** ******* ***** ****
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Corruption *********** ********
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Hikvision ** ********
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**** ********* ******* **** ********* *** it *** *** *******.
Facial *********** *********: * ******* *******
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