China-made surveillance cameras dominate the British market, with over 60 percent of public bodies in the country currently using cameras made by Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua, a new report (pdf) has revealed. Through more than 4,500 Freedom of Information requests to government departments, police forces, universities, schools, and hospitals in the UK, civil liberties group Big Brother Watch found that around 2,800 public bodies, or 60.8 percent of all public bodies, may be using surveillance equipment produced by the two controversial Chinese companies. Hikvision and Dahua, the world’s top manufacturers of surveillance cameras, have been blacklisted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for posing a threat to American national security. Both firms, which are ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are known to supply surveillance equipment that has been used to target Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang province. Big Brother Watch said there are …