Category: IPVM

Blacklisted Chinese Hikvision Aids PRC Police to Track Protesters, Falun Gong

December 31, 2022
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Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision has activated alarms to aid the Chinese regime in tracking protesters and Falun Gong adherents, according to the latest report from Pennsylvania-based video surveillance information company IPVM. Protest activities subjected to alarm include “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places,” “unlawful assembly, procession, demonstration,” and threats to “petition,” among…

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Chinese Province Targets Journalists, Foreign Students With Planned New Surveillance System

November 29, 2021
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BEIJING—Security officials in one of China’s largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other “suspicious people,” documents reviewed by Reuters showed. A July 29 tender document published on the Henan provincial government’s procurement website—reported in the media for the first time—details plans…

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Blacklisted Chinese Surveillance Equipment Companies Secure Regional US Governments as Customers

May 28, 2021
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More than 300 different U.S. government organizations—among them city, county, and town governments, as well as school—have purchased cameras and surveillance systems from two blacklisted Chinese tech companies since August 2019, according to government contract data. The two companies are Hikvision and Dahua Technology, and their recent business deals with U.S. local governments were reviewed…

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