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⚡NEWS: Surveillance Camera Commissioner warns police against using Chinese state-owned CCTV.

Despite security concerns, rights-abusing cameras made by #Hikvision & #Dahua are FLOODING Britain.

The Gov't must use the #ProcurementBill to #BanHikvision⤵️
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/ban-hikvision/

Ban HikVision — Big Brother Watch

Ban HikVision — Big Brother Watch

🚨BREAKING🚨

The Government officially BLOCKS (Clause 65) which would’ve removed #Hikvision from the public sector.

They've banned the same human rights abusing tech from some of their own buildings.

But what about us?

#ProcurementBill

SIGN⤵️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-hikvision

Ban Hikvision

Chinese state-owned companies Hikvision and Dahua are used to monitor, control and oppress ethnic minorities in China. Their cameras watch over 1 million people held in concentration camps and every corner of the Xinjiang province, with high-tech features such as facial recognition, behavioural analysis and "Uyghur alerts" to flag the province's ethnic minorities to the authorities. And these surveillance companies are not only spying on ethnic minorities in China - almost all of us in the...

38 Degrees

...yet the Gov’t is actively BLOCKING plans in the #ProcurementBill to strip Hikvision out of the public sector?

Parliamentarians must NOT swallow this propaganda, from a CCP-owned CCTV firm linked to crimes against humanity.

➡️https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/ban-hikvision/

Ban HikVision — Big Brother Watch

Ban HikVision — Big Brother Watch
@SamGoodman22 RT by @nathanlawkc: Fascinating to see #Hikvision a 🇨🇳 surveillance technology firm blacklisted in US for its links to internment camps in #Xinjiang privately lobbying MPs to water down the #ProcurementBill. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/SamGoodman22/status/1622625065190694912#m
Sam Goodman (@SamGoodman22)

Fascinating to see #Hikvision a 🇨🇳 surveillance technology firm blacklisted in US for its links to internment camps in #Xinjiang privately lobbying MPs to water down the #ProcurementBill.

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With the #OnlineSafetyBill, #PublicOrderBill and #ProcurementBill going through endless changes, we’re constantly reminding Parliament to prioritise defending human rights. ✊

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@hk_watch RT by @benedictrogers: We hope that MPs will block attempts to remove the cross-party @DavidAltonHL amendment from #ProcurementBill which would require Ministers to extend the Whitehall ban of #Hikvision #Dahua cameras to the rest of the public procurement supply chain. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hk_watch/status/1620384239496876032#m
Hong Kong Watch (@hk_watch)

We hope that MPs will block attempts to remove the cross-party @DavidAltonHL amendment from #ProcurementBill which would require Ministers to extend the Whitehall ban of #Hikvision #Dahua cameras to the rest of the public procurement supply chain.

Nitter

⚠️The Gov’t is actively BLOCKING plans to strip CCTV companies involved in human rights abuses out of the public sector!

They've banned these cameras from their own ‘sensitive sites’...

But deem them acceptable for me and you!

#BanHikvision | #ProcurementBill

With the #OnlineSafetyBill, #PublicOrderBill and #ProcurementBill going through endless changes, we’re constantly reminding Parliament to prioritise defending human rights. ✊

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🚨Last night, at the #ProcurementBill's Second Reading, MPs across parties URGED the Gov't to cut off the supply of rights-abusing Hikvision CCTV cameras in the UK.

🙌We welcome cross-party support to #BanHikvision.