A bill introduced in US Congress would, if passed, force the US government to determine within 30 days whether full sanctions should be applied to...
By Conor Healy - over 1 year ago
4 human rights groups have published open letters to Dahua and Lorex calling on employees to resign, and partners - including ADI, Costco, and...
By Conor Healy - over 1 year ago
Tiandy, one of the PRC's largest video surveillance manufacturers and an Intel partner, has been sanctioned by the US Commerce Department for human...
By Conor Healy and Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
A report in The Guardian raised fresh concerns about Hikvision's human rights abuse record, though, in this instance, it was over Hikvision UK...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
Robert Aarnes, at least on paper, is an All-American success: D1 Football player, Naval Academy graduate, MBA, and President of a multi-billion...
By John Honovich and Donald Maye - over 1 year ago
Both the UK and Scottish governments have banned Hikvision plus other PRC providers from certain government usage for national security reasons,...
By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago
Dahua has been caught, over and over again, specifying racial analytics targeting ethnic minorities. Watch the ~3-minute video below to learn...
By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago
The UK's top CCTV official, Fraser Sampson, told the UK's Security Minister that surveillance companies that are unwilling to accept scrutiny and...
By Joyce Ho - over 1 year ago
Dahua executive Wayne Hurd and his team are allegedly the real victims of Dahua's ongoing human rights abuses against ethnic minorities, at least...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
Four Dahua camera models specify video analytics that can detect "race", "skin color", and "Xinjiang/Tibet" facial attributes, IPVM has verified on...
By Donald Maye and Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
Calling it "uncomfortable" but "not unreasonable", SIA told IPVM that its' questioning of "ALL WHITE MEN" in the security industry benefits by...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
Two UK Labour Party politicians are calling for a national strategy to ban public procurement from Hikvision and other firms involved in Xinjiang,...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
The US has imposed export controls on Dahua as part of sweeping restrictions against the PRC chip industry aimed at countering the PRC military and...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
ONVIF is fully reactivating Dahua and Hikvision as the US government has adjusted the terms of its Entity List sanctions. In 2019, ONVIF...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
A sitting US Senator has called on the US to impose Magnitsky sanctions on Hikvision based on a recent UN human rights report. The UN's top...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
The UN's top human rights body is calling out Xinjiang surveillance as "highly invasive" and part of potential crimes against humanity,...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
Note: this opinion piece was co-written equally by Conor Healy, Sarah Teich, and Mehmet Tohti. For purely technical reasons, only Conor Healy is...
By Conor Healy - over 1 year ago
The newly-appointed Minister for Security, Tom Tugendhat, has called for the UK to stop buying video surveillance from providers who profit from...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
The PRC is by far the world's largest single video surveillance market, making up over half of sales despite only having ~17% of global population...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
A government ministry in New Zealand has publicly announced that it will "exclude" Hikvision from procurement over its involvement in human rights...
By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago
Hikvision strongly denied selling tiger chairs, routinely used to torture suspects, in remarks to UK state television prompted by an IPVM...
By Charles Rollet - almost 2 years ago
Hikvision has a custom PRC China interrogation solution that integrates with tiger chairs, metal restraining devices used by Chinese police to lock...
By Charles Rollet - almost 2 years ago
67 UK Parliament members across party lines have called for a "ban on the sale and operation" of Hikvision and Dahua equipment over human rights...
By Charles Rollet - almost 2 years ago
The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has removed an award nomination for Hikvision after a Member of Parliament called out the...
By IPVM Team - almost 2 years ago
Hikvision is contracted to build a sweeping "combat platform" for PRC police that live-tracks protestors and even predicts the chance of them...
By Charles Rollet - almost 2 years ago
