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Clicking through the AI Summit website, Honovich couldn't tell whether Chinese authorities were using this technology to oppress minorities, but he saw that danger coalescing.

He quickly wrote up an article about Hikvision's ethnicity detection technology, including the video, screenshots, and a no comment from the company, and posted it on the website of IPVM, the trade publication he had founded.

He talked about the discovery with one of IPVM's reporters, Charles Rollet, a Frenchman who lives outside the U.S. and also keeps his location secret.

Rollet had written about how Hikvision and Dawa, the second largest video surveillance manufacturer in China, were reaping huge profits from government work in Xinjiang.

Rolay had a newspaper background, and though he was 25, talked like an ink-stained newsy twice his age, all scoops and calling out abuses and hard-hitting news.

American chip giants Intel and Nvidia sold them silicon to power their face recognition.

That would all soon change.

Over the next few years, IPVM's writers unearthed one damning detail after another on Chinese surveillance gear.

It's like so annoying.

Do your efforts for accountability and transparency include deleting yourself from the Internet Archive? Because according to the IPVM, which is like a privacy industry site, the website flock.com has been deleted from the Wayback Machine, deleted from the Internet Archive.

Are you familiar with this tool? Yeah.

Yeah.

The IPVM says that they have not encountered another company whose entire Wayback Machine has simply disappeared.

And if you look at the Wayback Machine for Palantir, you'll see 7,332 captures.

For Axon, that's Flock's main competitor, there's 3,700 Wayback Machine captures.