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Testing of Hikvision and Dahua CCTV cameras indicated that certain models are vulnerable to hacking and, in some cases, transmit information to servers controlled by companies fully or partly owned by the Chinese government. That poses a risk of data transfers to Moscow, experts say.
Whether monitoring a street corner, a shop, or a nuclear power plant, a Russian video-surveillance system that is in place at locations across Ukraine, can transmit data to Moscow servers owned by big Russian corporations, the investigative unit of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service has found.
A Schemes investigation found that footage from surveillance cameras with Russian software goes directly to servers in Moscow with ties to the FSB.