Dahua Technology

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

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

Rollet had a newspaper background, and though he was twenty-five, talked like an ink-stained newsie twice his age, all scoops and calling out abuses and hard-hitting news.

By trawling through publicly available materials online, Rollet had learned that Hikvision had landed a deal to build a mass face recognition system to cover one Xinjiang county, including a re-education center and some of its mosques, and a contract to install video conferencing systems in mosques, presumably so attendees could watch sermons broadcast by the government.

Dahua won the bigger contract, six hundred and eighty-six million dollars to build camera-equipped police stations in another part of Xinjiang.

The deal specified that the companies would install these systems, run them for a number of years, and then pass them off to the government.

In many aspects of the government's video surveillance in Xinjiang, Rollet reported, the two companies were deeply involved.

Hikvision and Dahua cameras also happened to hang on houses, businesses, and public buildings in the US and much of the world.

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 Dahua, the second largest video surveillance manufacturer in China, were reaping huge profits from government work in Xinjiang.

Rollet had a newspaper background, and though he was twenty-five, talked like an ink-stained newsie twice his age, all scoops and calling out abuses and hard-hitting news.

By trawling through publicly available materials online, Rollet had learned that Hikvision had landed a deal to build a mass face recognition system to cover one Xinjiang county, including a re-education center and some of its mosques, and a contract to install video conferencing systems in mosques, presumably so attendees could watch sermons broadcast by the government.

Dahua won the bigger contract, six hundred and eighty-six million dollars to build camera-equipped police stations in another part of Xinjiang.

The deal specified that the companies would install these systems, run them for a number of years, and then pass them off to the government.

In many aspects of the government's video surveillance in Xinjiang, Rollet reported, the two companies were deeply involved.

Hikvision and Dahua cameras also happened to hang on houses, businesses, and public buildings in the U.S. and much of the world.

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 Dahua, the second largest video surveillance manufacturer in China, were reaping huge profits from government work in Xinjiang.

Rollet had a newspaper background, and though he was twenty-five, talked like an ink-stained newsie twice his age, all scoops and calling out abuses and hard-hitting news.

By trawling through publicly available materials online, Rollet had learned that Hikvision had landed a deal to build a mass face recognition system to cover one Xinjiang county, including a re-education center and some of its mosques, and a contract to install video conferencing systems in mosques, presumably so attendees could watch sermons broadcast by the government.

Dahua won the bigger contract, six hundred and eighty-six million dollars to build camera-equipped police stations in another part of Xinjiang.

The deal specified that the companies would install these systems, run them for a number of years, and then pass them off to the government.

In many aspects of the government's video surveillance in Xinjiang, Rollet reported, the two companies were deeply involved.

Hikvision and Dahua cameras also happened to hang on houses, businesses, and public buildings in the U.S. and much of the world.

You know, I've got this controversial, I think people think I'm anti-Chinese or anti...

And it is funny that we never installed Hikvision or we never installed Dahua, those two main Chinese brands.

What we focused on is the solution for the customer.

So I've had customers that don't want water.

But it comes with its problems.

So what we try and do is if we do use brands from China or whatever, which are low cost, and 99% of the security industry will use Chinese products.

So I guarantee you if you went out today and you asked 10 companies to specify cameras for here, 99% of them will give you either Hikvision or Dahua.

So you have to say to yourself, well, are they really giving me the right solution for my business? As opposed to I might come out to you and give you, you know, seven or eight different types of camera for different applications in this building.