PRC state media Global Times condemned IPVM as a US government "sockpuppet" that is part of a plot to "demonize China" over our reporting on a Henan province police surveillance project which tracks and labels foreign journalists based on 'green',...
By IPVM Team - about 10 hours ago
A YouTube video of Xinjiang's detention camps shows numerous Hikvision cameras, providing further evidence of the firm's ties to the facilities. Hikvision declined to comment on the camp cameras. In response to this revelation, a UK Parliament...
By Charles Rollet - 3 days ago
Hikvision has received the most global news reporting of any video surveillance company, ever, ranging from the WSJ, the Financial Times, Reuters, the NY Times, SCMP and more. This directory catalogs and links to 100+ of them. November...
By IPVM Team - 5 days ago
Dahua has been cleared to move forward with a controversial 1,000-camera, $20+ million USD direct deal in Brazil following an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by the Hangzhou, China-based company. Inside this report, IPVM...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 8 days ago
Dahua has been cleared to move forward with a controversial 1,000-camera, $20+ million USD direct deal in Brazil following an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by the Hangzhou, China-based company. Inside this report, IPVM...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 8 days ago
Oosto (formerly Anyvision) has called out Clearview AI, stating "that biometrics should be deployed with empty databases" in a recent release, referring to the US company's practice of scraping billions of photos from social media to use in its...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 15 days ago
False traffic stops conducted on previously stolen vehicles can be particularly dangerous because they are treated as high-risk. As Flock Safety expands aggressively, how it will deal with inevitable false stops will become an important issue, as...
By Isabella Cheng - 20 days ago
Brazilian media, academics, and NGOs are voicing alarm at facial recognition's growing popularity in the country, where its use has gone beyond public safety and concerns about its consequences for minority groups intensify. In this post,...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 23 days ago
The UK Home Office has rejected a 'human rights clause' in its revised Surveillance Camera Code that could have blocked Hikvision and Dahua's sales to UK authorities. The clause was proposed by Biometrics And Surveillance Camera Commissioner...
By Charles Rollet - 29 days ago
Today, PRC manufacturers like Hikvision and Huawei regularly denounce Western efforts at restricting their technology for national security risks as unfounded, political, and anti-China. However, in the past decade, the PRC government...
By Charles Rollet - about 1 month ago
Flock Safety is expanding from its core market of LPR into "audio evidence capture" and most notably gunshot detection, just months after raising $150 million from A16Z. Flock announced "Raven", an audio analytic offering that complements its...
By Isabella Cheng - about 1 month ago
Today, Axis' PRC China sales are tiny, but for years Axis considered the PRC the "market with the greatest potential" due to its strong growth and supplied many high-profile PRC enterprise projects, including police. This all ended in the...
By Charles Rollet - about 1 month ago
The European Parliament singled out Clearview AI in a resolution on artificial intelligence last week, declaring that the US company's database was "collected illegally." However, Clearview AI's CEO disputed that in a statement to...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 months ago
The European Parliament adopted a sweeping resolution last week, calling for bans on law enforcement use of closed/proprietary AI systems, a ban on mass biometric data collection in public spaces, a moratorium on new facial recognition...
By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 months ago
In 2010, while growing rapidly in the PRC, Axis CEO touted over 70 Axis cameras deployed in Tiananmen Square, touting that the same government which massacred its own students in 1989 chose Axis for its "very good picture quality". Axis CEO...
By Charles Rollet - about 2 months ago
IPVM provided expert testimony to the Uyghur Tribunal in London on September 12, outlining how PRC China authorities use various surveillance tools to oppress and control the ethnic minority group in China. The video clip below shows the...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
A research paper analyzing "Chinese ethnical groups" focused on "Korean, Tibetan, and Uyghur" ethnicities has been found by an Australian University to breach core ethical standards, with the University's Professor abruptly resigning, leaving to a...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
100 Hikvision partners have submitted comments to the US government, urging the FCC not to ban the PRC China government-controlled manufacturer. This comes shortly after Hikvision mass emailed partners urging them to submit comments to the...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 3 months ago
Last month, Flock Safety received $150 million from mega VC firm A16Z and, at the same, installed 98 LPR cameras in a Florida county, free of charge, without the knowledge of key county officials and without proper permits. But despite the...
By Isabella Cheng - 3 months ago
15 US cities, 1 county, and 1 state, have not only banned government use of facial recognition, but are effectively boycotting the purchase of any product that includes facial recognition, with the City of Oakland, CA declaring that they are...
By Isabella Cheng - 4 months ago
Amidst bad press, ShotSpotter commissioned Edgeworth Analytics to review Northwestern Law School’s MacArthur Justice Center (MJC) report that ShotSpotter “drains millions of dollars of taxpayer resources every year without any clear benefits to...
By IPVM - 4 months ago
Vice alleged gunshot detection provider ShotSpotter has altered evidence as directed by police. ShotSpotter disputes this and, in one of the cases, explained the discrepancies as standard procedure and charged Vice with misunderstanding its...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
The UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner wrote a letter to Hikvision inquiring about 'human rights abuses' yet Hikvision has so far refused to answer, offering a meeting instead - which the Commissioner declined until Hikvision provides a written...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
Most countries have no governmental codes for video surveillance. However, the UK has had one for almost a decade and it is about to be revised. Inside this note, we explain what the Code of Practice is, how it works, how it impacts...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
China (PRC) has enacted 5 major laws in the past 6 years, including 2 this year, that define the legal cybersecurity obligations of PRC manufacturers to the PRC government. PRC video surveillance manufacturers are legally obligated to cooperate...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
