ADI Promotes Human Rights Abusing Dahua
By John Honovich, Published Feb 26, 2021, 09:23am ESTPublicly Traded Resideo's ADI division, the security industry's largest distributor continues to promote 'stocking up' on Dahua despite Dahua's human rights abuse sanctions and growing evidence of Dahua's ongoing persecution of ethnic minorities.
Inside this note, we share a response from ADI to IPVM, a complaint to Resideo's Supplier Code of Conduct, and Resideo's ignoring the 'red flag' status of Dahua.
Red Flag
Since October 2019, business dealings with Dahua have carried a red flag:
Ongoing Persecution
While industry partners of Dahua have tried to ignore this as 'politics', an investigation by the LA Times and IPVM shows that Dahua has continued to develop and market ethnic oppression technologies throughout 2020.
ADI Top Brands
Despite this, Dahua is still listed as one of the 12 'Top Brands' for ADI in the USA:
Response ADI To Uyghur Warning Report
ADI responded generically to IPVM about Dahua's Uyghur Warning evidence saying:
ADI is committed to providing exceptional service to our customers. We will continue to monitor the situation and remain committed to comply with law and regulations.
Submission Violating Resideo Supplier Code of Conduct
Resideo maintains a Supplier Code of Conduct covering various ethical and human rights violations.
IPVM submitted a complaint about Dahua to Resideo's Integrity & Compliance team who acknowledged receipt:
Thank you for reporting your concern to the Resideo Integrity & Compliance team. Resideo takes all reported concerns seriously. Your concern will be reviewed by the appropriate person in the region (or business) for handling.
Stock Up on Dahua
At the same time, Dahua was featured amongst ADI USA's 'stock up and save' promotion this week:
Normalizing Human Rights Abuses
ADI is normalizing human rights abuses. As the largest security systems distributor, ADI's continuing to carry and feature Dahua, despite its ongoing human rights abuses and its repeated deception on these matters, signals to security industry participants that abusing human rights and lying about it is business as usual.
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Must be a real slow news day at the IPVM offices.
News? Really? They are not a news organization; those no longer exist. We know what ADI is doing, many of us use them as vendors every day. And will continue to. "Keep up the good work ADI! Ignore the complainers, they will eventually find something else to distract them - watch the tv networks catering to the 50+ crowd playing tv shows of the 60's, 70's & 80's. There are any number of commercials every 10 minutes describing human and animal rights abuses in every corner of the world, begging for our time, and more importantly, money, to "fix" it. Spend more time worrying about what is going on in your own respective countries first. Don't forget about that reverse mortgage. Fix your own problems, then worry about lost causes like abuses in cultures you have no understanding of." We may begin hearing some say. Maybe they're right, maybe not. "Got your ethnic human rights under control in your own country? Give it a try sometime" - may be heard echoing about. Boycott ADI, along with the mfg of MR. Potato head. Let's see how that affects their actions. An experiment of sorts. So much energy to waste, so little time. You only have so many years available to you; use them wisely... I just wasted 5 minutes....This won't stop; your efforts are futile, you're intelligent, start getting it - many beg. Take the $3million you make from us annually and put it to better use. Test "things", tell us what you think about it; this is what we want - some say. Stop wasting our time with issues that we will refuse to begin to do enough about to make a difference - others emplore you. Anyone here that cares enough to take any actions that make a real difference, will. I don't have enough time and neither do you. - say some of our peers. Worry about your own backyard first - fix it, or give it a good old college try. May be unhelpful, but it's right...you know it is.

02/27/21 07:42am
IPVM is biased toward Western products. This kind of report can only fool the ignorant.
The fight against dahua and hikvision didn't start now.
In the CCP, everyone is valued. Some are worth more $$ than others.
The 10% of dealers that that say yes to buying slave products from the CCP must be hoping that they can get a lung, heart, kidney or liver from the CCP. Every Uyghur is being genetically tested to see if their organs are a match for someone in the West. So think about it, a Uyghur might be worth $200,000 when parted out. Various observers have reported that there is no anesthesia used when they chop these poor people up to steal their organs. The detailed reports of gang raping of Uyghur women are disgusting enough. Are we also going to buy slave produced goods from the CCP? This is merely rewarding the new Nazis for their atrocities and experimenting on the innocent.
I think most of you that are attacking John should know from what I have seen he is not anti-china or pro-western companies. If he was that bias he would have banned some of you for some of the ridicilous comments. How would any of you feel if some of the people in those Chinese concentration camps were family members or friends? You understand there is a holocaust happening there right? The U.S. and recently Canada has declared it as a genocide. There is a difference between Chinese state owned companies like Hikvision and Dahua and Private Chinese companies like Uniview, TVT, and ZKTeco to name a few. He has not attacked Uniview (there is no evidence they are involved in the human rights violations, they are not owned by the PRC, and the recent tamper proof testing done by IPVM showed Uniview as a clear winner). And I do not recall IPVM slandering those mentioned Chinese companies.
The fact that some of you are so obsessed, loyal, or just plain lazy to learn and sell a new product is alarming (no pun intended). How do you expect your customers to evolve if you can not?? Instead of wasting time complaining about all these news and writing about it, learn an alternative product or do not read the article and move right along. If our government is ok with a Chinese brand that is NDAA compliant but not with Hikvision or Dahua maybe that should make you think about it longer and actually appreciate the work IPVM does to protect our industry. Most integrators do not know about this who do not have IPVM. I heard about one not being paid for a job they did on a federal site because they used a Hikvision OEM. If that is not worth the membership alone for this valuable infomration then I do not know what is!
My friend has a prominent company, is as white as white can get, and said he felt uncomofortable supporting Hikvision and switched to Uniview a year ago. Loves the product and I was also refered by a friend to the brand. That says something.
Since using Uniview we have gotten more referals from end users than any other brand we installed in the past. We also like Hanwha and use it when price is not an issue. All of our smartphones have internals from China. I do not see John being Pro-western. He and his team shares facts and the IPVM Calculator has us winning projects against the biggest names in the industry so thank you for that. The studies for favourability show Axis winning almost every year and are they American? No!
I do not write much on here but I was getting tired of the complaining. Really? you are going to complain about what news stories are on here when there is a damn genocide going on and Hikvision and Dahua are helping to make it happen? The sattire in all of this is so 2020.
That is by far the stupidest analogy I have ever heard in my life. "Arms" are all weapons. It is not like some are not and some are. Many countries make them. That is their purpose. Period. If there was a specific U.S. government owned weapon that identified and only killed a specific race for example? Now that would be a fair analogy. Selling arms to another country is not a security threat for that country. Having video surveillance from a government owned country that is in a trade war is a whole different story altogether.
There are thousands of camera manufacturers in the world and ONLY TWO that use technology to make people who are walking down the street disappear by notifying the police of their presence due in fact of their ethnicity and religion. On top of having the ability if they really wanted to...to disable or peek into all the cameras and blame it on a hack. Can you imagine what the federal government buildings having that risk would mean in case of a war?
And I did not say I am ok that the U.S. being the number 1 arms dealer in the world. But they do not have bullets that automatically kill a specific ethnic minority while knowing to only stun and not kill everyone else through some technology. If you want an analogy I just gave you one without being anal about it.
I think we have to separate out the manufacturer of the tool and the user of the tool.
Dahua (as far as I'm aware) do not actually abuse human rights. Dahua (as far as I am aware) supply equipment to the Chinese authorities and that the Chinese authorities abuse human rights.
Facial recognition software (and indeed racial profiling software) are not themselves abuses of human rights. If the Chinese authorities decide to use them for abusive purposes it seems genuinely harsh to label the supplier of the equipment as an abuser of human rights.
Personally, I'd be a lot more comfortable if these reports described Dahua as a manufacturer or surveillance equipment used by the Chinese authorities for human rights abuses.
It seems very convenient that Dahua (and Hikvision) are always pulled out for special attention when very, very, few surveillance cameras and recorders are made anywhere except China. And if we were really concerned about human rights abuses we'd have to boycott everything from China. And that wouldn't just be Dahua and Hikvision.
I suggest keeping it simple: this is wrong, that's it
ADI, sorry you are not receiving the attention you deserve. We got away from you a bit on this one...
"ADI Promotes Human Rights Abusing Dahua" -
I never actually read the part in the ADI monthly flier where they literally stated the above language.
Could the title of this article be considered slander or no, maybe defamation? Maybe, depending on how the reader interprets the use of language. I have to go review my learner's Dictionary again..
Maybe a title of
" ADI running a sales promotion of controversial equipment manufacturer" -
not quite the attention grabber though.
UI # 9 - I don't think John is saying that only these two companies are engaged in aiding a brutal genocide. I am sure many large corporation - including some in the US - do things that are unethical from white lie advertising to abusing employees to ... well... helping a brutal genocide take place. I doubt anyone is saying that you can perfectly avoid any trade against any company that does something morally wrong. He has never made the case that USA companies are angelic. But his reporting is immensely helpful if you care about human rights abuses. If you don't, then just move on to the next article - as most are just technical in nature.
If I need some cyanide-based pesticide such as Zyklon B for some legitimate purpose - and I have a choice between purchasing "Brand ABC" - a brand that is making tons of money off selling it to a regime that is gassing innocent people - and "Brand XYZ" which is not, I personally would like to purchase from Brand XYZ. Hopefully you would too. So the information IPVM is providing is very helpful in this regard. I know any Chinese product ultimately helps the CCP. Short of living in a cave I can't avoid not purchasing from China.
Further, because other corporations and the US government are taking the abuse very seriously, even if you don't care about other humans, you can argue that it is still important simply because you may consider moving away from these offending companies for financial reasons. Either way, the reporting is beneficial - and easy to skip over if you don't think it is.