Just last month, Dahua employees held a meeting to "thoroughly study and implement" Secretary-General Xi Jinping's latest speech in order to "improve" their "political judgment". However, Dahua deleted this announcement, hours after IPVM...
By Charles Rollet - 2 days ago
Inside the PRC (China), Dahua directly operates police video surveillance, significantly different from its Western common perception as a low-cost camera provider. In this post, IPVM investigates these activities, including: Dahua's large...
By Charles Rollet - 4 days ago
A Brazilian State Deputy alleges that Dahua, in cahoots with local authorities, rigged a ~$24 million USD bid in its favor, in doing so violating Brazilian law. Dahua "unequivocally" denied this to IPVM. Last month, Dahua was awarded a ~$24...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 9 days ago
Hikvision and Dahua helped write Chinese police video surveillance standards which include tracking people's skin color - such as "black", "yellow" and "brown" - and ethnicity, IPVM has verified. Watch this short video for an overview: These...
By IPVM Team - 19 days ago
Although surveillance video retention is often constricted by storage costs, written laws do sometimes dictate a minimum or maximum period video must be kept for. In this report, IPVM examines: Liability and privacy concerns driving...
By Isabella Cheng - about 1 month 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. April 2021 Wired...
By IPVM Team - about 1 month ago
In 2019, Genetec quietly acquired Valcri from a UK University. Recently, Wired wrote about Valcri in an investigation about "spying eyes everywhere". But what does Valcri exactly do? Inside this note, based on a briefing with Genetec, we...
By Zach Segal - about 1 month ago
Few academic researchers study video surveillance / CCTV. One of the most notable is John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York associate professor Dr. Eric Piza who we interviewed. Inside this interview, Dr. Piza...
By Robert Wren Gordon and Charles Rollet - about 2 months ago
Dahua has responded to IPVM and the LA Times investigation into Dahua's "Uyghur Warnings". Dahua has been caught lying repeatedly about its human rights violations. Dahua admitted that the Dahua documents IPVM discovered are authentic: Based...
By John Honovich - 2 months ago
Dahua offers race recognition, verified by Dahua's own software client, SDK, technical documentation, and public bids, IPVM has found. Dahua says they can recognize, in their words, "white" vs "yellow" vs "black". The company touted a "skin...
By IPVM Team - 2 months ago
Dahua provides "real-time Uyghur Warnings" to China police, as Dahua's own technical documents reveal, discovered by IPVM. This video explains what Dahua is doing: This proves Dahua lied when Dahua claimed it "does not sell products that...
By IPVM Team - 2 months ago
From Chile to China, lucrative safe city projects are increasing in popularity. But do more cameras equate to more safety? IPVM investigates. Do large-scale, multimillion-dollar safe city projects stop crime? If not, what is the point in...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 3 months ago
Hikvision won a $33 million USD Smart City project in Shandong province, beating out 3 integrators. In this report, IPVM examines the project, including: Shanghe background Project details, including facial recognition camera...
By Isabella Cheng - 3 months ago
Hikvision won a $33 million USD Smart City project in Shandong province, beating out 3 integrators. In this report, IPVM examines the project, including: Shanghe background Project details, including facial recognition camera...
By Isabella Cheng - 3 months ago
A patent application authored by Huawei and the PRC government includes Uyghur-detection analytics, in the latest proof that the China tech giant uses this explicitly racist technology. This comes after IPVM and The Washington Post exposed last...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
In 2018, China's facial recognition systems for identifying jaywalkers became global news. But what has happened in the few years since? In this report, we examine the 2021 market for China facial recognition jaywalking systems,...
By Isabella Cheng - 3 months ago
Hikvision is facing growing criticism over its human rights abuse record from the halls of the UK and EU Parliaments to a Danish pension fund and Canadian politics. Ever since the US government blacklisted Hikvision over its Xinjiang operations...
By Charles Rollet - 3 months ago
French police are criticizing their Hikvision body cameras, with one police union official even calling them "junk" after the government purchased over 10,000 in 2018. In response, the government has issued an open tender for 30,000 new body...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
Alibaba, the NYSE-listed 'Amazon of China' with a $700 billion+ market cap, openly offers Uyghur/'ethnic minority' recognition as a Cloud service, allowing customers to be alerted any time Alibaba detects a Uyghur. Watch this 90-second video for...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
Huawei and Megvii worked together to test and validate Uyghur alarms, according to a Huawei "interoperability report" found by IPVM. Huawei is the PRC's biggest technology company and Megvii is one of the country's largest facial recognition...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
Hikvision has won a ~$46 million USD deal directly with a provincial capital. The deal includes ~5,000 cameras and covers a wide range of facial, traffic, and "smart community" analytics. In this report, we examine the details of the deal,...
By Isabella Cheng - 5 months ago
Uniview, the PRC's third-largest video surveillance manufacturer and a major supplier of China police projects, has racist software used for tracking Uyghurs, IPVM has found. Uniview responded to IPVM but avoided explaining their Uyghur tracking...
By Charles Rollet - 5 months ago
IPVM is proud to announce a unique membership offer for recently separated military members and law enforcement professionals. About the Offer This unique offer consists of full IPVM membership access for (1) year plus (1) IPVM course credit....
By Donald Maye - 5 months ago
Dahua has won a deal directly with a China city. While its population is small, the deal is big at ~$9 million USD covering 1,900 cameras and a wide area of advanced analytics and functionalities. In this note, we examine the details of the...
By Isabella Cheng - 5 months ago
Dahua's software, published on its website, was revealed to track Uyghurs, a persecuted minority in China. The 1-minute video below explains the situation: This confirms Dahua developed discriminatory software like its rival Hikvision, which...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
