For China's Hikvision, the world's largest purveyor of video surveilla...
BEIJING - For China’s Hikvision, the world’s largest purveyor of video surveillance systems and a vendor to Xinjiang police agencies, a moment of reckoning may be at hand.
The company, known as Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co Ltd, is publicly trying to distance itself from Xinjiang as it lobbies to ease U.S. restrictions. A Hikvision representative said the company “takes global human rights very seriously” and noted that its technology also was used in shops, traffic control and commercial buildings.
The projects in 2016-17 include facial recognition and surveillance systems for mosques, the documents and Hikvision said. Human rights groups say such cutting-edge mass surveillance is at the heart of a campaign of repression. The company’s technology has also been used in at least 180 million yuan worth of smaller contracts since the beginning of 2018, including commercial, military and police projects.
Reuters reported in May the administration was considering Huawei-like sanctions on Hikvision over China’s treatment of the Uighurs.
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