Dahua Deceiving On Imou Ownership
Dahua is deceiving about its ownership of AI / cloud consumer provider Imou, despite launching it in 2018 as Dahua's "consumer IoT brand".
Dahua maintains Imou is "independent" while Imou's website makes no mention of Dahua. However, public documents clearly demonstrate Dahua's ownership and control of Imou.
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