Secretly Relabelled Hikvision Sales Violated Taiwan Law
Two Taipei distributors sold relabelled Hikvision cameras for use in Taiwan government projects, a direct violation of Taiwan's ban on government use of PRC tech.
In this report, IPVM examines Taiwan media investigations of this issue, the distributors who OEM PRC tech in Taiwan, and the scale of the white label crisis.
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