A cross-party group of MPs is calling on the British government to follow the US' lead in banning the sale and use of Chinese-made CCTV surveillance cameras.
The 67 parliamentarians say that surveillance cameras supplied by partly Chinese state-owned CCTV manufacturers Hikvision and Dahua have been supplying surveillance equipment, which includes ethnicity profiling tools, for cities and concentration camps in Xinjiang.
Meanwhile, according to Freedom of Information requests from campaign group Big Brother Watch, 73 per cent of councils across the UK, 57 per cent of secondary schools in England, and 60 per cent of NHS Trusts are using CCTV systems made by the two companies, as are a number of universities and police forces.
"Chinese state-owned CCTV has no place watching Britain’s streets. Hikvision and Dahua are closely linked to the genocide in Xinjiang and their low-cost, high-tech cameras are normalising intrusive surveillance in the UK," says Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch.
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