US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses – TechCrunch
US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses Hikvision and Dahua supplied Beijing with technology it used to surveil ethnic groups This story was reported in partnership with video surveillance news site IPVM. At least a hundred U.S. counties, towns and cities have bought China-made surveillance systems that the U.S. government has linked to human rights abuses, according to contract data seen by TechCrunch. Some municipalities have spent tens of thousands of dollars or more to buy surveillance equipment made by two Chinese technology companies, Hikvision and Dahua, aft...
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