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Flock Retracts False Statement About IPVM, Explains Position

Scrutiny of Flock Safety has grown as it has expanded from a small startup to one of physical security's fastest-growing companies, fueled by $300...

By John Honovich - about 21 hours ago

Hikvision And Dahua CEOs Write To UN Secretary-General Affirming Human Rights, Despite Rights Abuses

Dahua and Hikvision's CEOs sent letters to the United Nations' top official committing not to abuse human rights in unusually high-profile pledges,...

By Conor Healy - 17 days ago

US Congress Reports on CCP China Investors, Citing IPVM 6 Times

A recent Congressional report scrutinizes the foundational role of US venture capitalists in key PRC China technology industries that advance its...

By Conor Healy - about 1 month ago

Protesters Demonstrate Hikvision At ADI Canada Branch

Protestors demonstrated outside an ADI Canada office over its sales of Hikvision. After being banned in Quebec and removed from CANASA events,...

By Conor Healy - about 2 months ago

ADI's Hikvision Sales An "Appalling Pursuit of Short Term Profit", Declares Congressional Chair

The Chair of the Congressional-Executive China Commission (CECC) criticized ADI following ADI declaring it is "stronger together" with NDAA banned...

By Conor Healy - 2 months ago

Hikvision Joins UN Compact Despite Human Rights Abuses

Hikvision has joined Dahua in a United Nations group of corporations committed to advancing human rights despite their complicity in possible...

By Conor Healy - 2 months ago

Hikvision Treasury Sanctions "Can't Be Done", Says Congressional Chair

A year and a half after Hikvision started preparing for severe US Treasury sanctions, they are not coming, according to recent remarks by a...

By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 3 months ago

Dahua Launders Reputation Countering Human Rights Abuses

For years, Dahua has refused to acknowledge designing "Uyghur warnings" for police and Xinjiang mass surveillance, which the UN deemed a "highly...

By Conor Healy - 4 months ago

Uyghur Students Targeted In PRC Police "Anti-Terrorism" Project

Uyghur students are being explicitly targeted as part of a wide-ranging "anti-terrorism" project in a major PRC city. This confirms PRC...

By IPVM Team - 4 months ago

Former UK Camera Commissioner Joins Facial Recognition Firm

The UK's former Camera Commissioner, best known for criticizing Dahua and Hikvision, has joined a company he used to regulate. This paves the...

By Charles Rollet - 5 months ago

Hikvision Demands "Commercial Confidentiality" But Accuses UK Official of "Misleading Public"

Hikvision is accusing the UK's ex-Camera Commissioner of 'misleading the public' about its "commercial confidentiality" demands. Hikvision's...

By Charles Rollet - 5 months ago

ACLU Falsely Contrasts School Shooting Killing Odds To Winning The Lottery

ACLU wrote a 60+ page report criticizing the EdTEch Surveillance industry, and in the report, it compared the odds of a student getting shot and...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 5 months ago

Hikvision Fights Back Publicly: New PR Strategy

Three Hikvision executives - Jeffrey He, Michael Gutierrez, and Justin Hollis - are leading a new campaign to fight back and win over the...

By Conor Healy - 5 months ago

Hikvision UK Paying Installers With Amazon Gift Cards To Become Hikvision Certified

Training, or the lack thereof, for technicians has long been a problem for installation quality. Now, Hikvision has a highly atypical solution for...

By Charles Rollet - 5 months ago

Hikvision Wins Project Requiring Ramadan Alerts Against Minorities

Hikvision won a PRC 'Smart Campus' system that alerts when ethnic minority students are suspected of fasting for Ramadan. Hikvision responded...

By IPVM Team - 6 months ago

"Tragedy Was Avoidable" Says Investigator For Oxford Michigan Shooting

Four students were murdered in a 2021 school shooting, but a new investigative report found that "this tragedy was avoidable" if "proper threat...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 months ago

Hikvision Blames Latest Ethnic Minority Evidence On 'Employee Error'

Hikvision is blaming an employee for including ethnic minority analytics in its latest software, which IPVM recently revealed. This shows...

By Charles Rollet - 6 months ago

Congress Probes ADI & Costco Over Selling Dahua and Hikvision

Two of the largest sellers of security products globally, Resideo's ADI and Costco, are being questioned over "threaten[ing] national security" and...

By Conor Healy and Charles Rollet - 6 months ago