Hikvision

A moderator needs to check the page before this notice can be removed. Visit the noticeboard or the appeals channel in either Zulip or Discord to request removal. Hikvision is a video surveillance company providing products and services to over 180 countries and regions, which was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China.[[1]]( Add your text below this box. Once this section is complete, delete this box by clicking on it and pressing backspace. Similarly to Flock , they are in use world wide and likely feed directly into the Chinese government's surveillance infrastructure and could conceivably be used to find dissidents world-wide. Products from the semi-state-owned company are also used to monitor Uyghur and Palestinian women.[[2]]( Hikvision used to advertise automatic recognition of praying, members of the Uyghur minority, and ramadan fasting among its selling points.[[2]]( In 2022 Hikvision removed functionalities on some PTZ cameras (eg. DS-2DE4A425IW-DE(S6)) with a firmware update. In this instance the auto tracking, which was described as a feature in the user manual, was removed without prior notice with the firmware version V5.7.3SP2.[[3]]( [[4]]( [[5]]( Some users have reported that the functionality was added back only in the newer hardware revision of that camera, the old version was then marked as discontinued.[[6]]( Example product line one") (release date): Short summary of the product's incidents. Example product line two") (release date): Add your text below this box. Once this section is complete, delete this box by clicking on it and pressing backspace.