The World's Leading Source of Video Surveillance and Security Information. Share a tip at https://xitter.cf/t.co/2hbZJJP5NW, and we'll investigate it.

Bethlehem, PA
Joined October 2008
My company AI calls me to get my decisions, assign tasks, and share updates. It's the future of work and it's too easy.
2
3
1
4
324
Running my team over a phone call with our AI after the hectic move to SF. It's life changing. Call +1 (855) 694-7596 to try it.
3
5
1
5
357
"Warning communities that objecting to the vendor means letting children die carries immense emotional power, yet that toxic leverage threatens to wear down civic patience and spark lasting resentment." Via @ipvideo ipvm.com/reports/flock-child…
5
20
1
60
869
IPVM retweeted
We’re thankful for organizational members @atsigncompany, @session_app, @zamzar, @c0mplex1tm, @spyshelter, Yorba, @ipvideo, and @sharktechnet for supporting EFF and standing up for digital freedom.
1
2
3
30
13,115
BREAKING - the FTC has fined Verkada $2.95m for allegedly sending millions of spammy, unsolicited marketing emails that violated the CAN-SPAM act: ftc.gov/business-guidance/bl… My reporting for @ipvideo with @CarlStoffers first exposed this in 2021: ipvm.com/reports/spam-verkad…
1
5
7
3,183
With the help of Hikvision, the Chinese megacity of Zhengzhou will have about 1 government-controlled surveillance camera for every 100 residents. Good breakdown of this $120m project & corresponding rights concerns by @ipvideo's @healy_conor ipvm.com/reports/hikvision-8…
5
6
2,095
French prosecutors accuse Telegram's founder of 'complicity' in child porn. CSAM has proliferated on Telegram. Last yr, I found a thriving network of criminals openly selling hacked home camera feeds of naked children, touting "CP", "kids room" See my @ipvideo investigation:
1
2
3
6,605
This is really impressive evidence that the surveillance tech assessment company IPVM, & their stellar staff like @healy_conor, are having a significant impact on how Congress uses their work to understand China risks. I would add that the Cdn govt too uses their work.
2
661
Amsterdam is now banning PRC-made cameras over national security and human rights concerns: ipvm.com/reports/amsterdam-b… via @ipvideo by @AngeliqueChen07 Awkward as Hikvision Europe is headquartered less than 30 min away
2
6
500
Today, Shanghai completes a radical surveillance expansion in Xuhui District (pop. ~1.1 million). Some numbers from my report in @ipvideo: -25.9 million faces scanned/day or 18k/minute -2,500 new FR cameras -2 petabytes of new storage for... -1 "file for each person" aggregating surveillance data "social relationships, portrait photos, activity patterns, and other comprehensive information." 1/ ipvm.com/reports/shanghai-xu…
42
59
7
105
35,973
PRC police in Shanghai are installing 2,500 new facial recognition cameras as part of a system that scans ~25.9 million faces daily, tracking people's "social relationships" and whether they are Uyghurs. great scoop @healy_conor @DonaldMaye ipvm.com/reports/shanghai-xu… via @ipvideo
11
70
5
106
18,156
BREAKING: Uyghur students in a major PRC city are *all* being tracked by a police "anti-terrorism" system which automatically flags "abnormal behaviors" such as "gathering at religious centers" via @ipvideo ipvm.com/reports/hangzhou-uy…
75
184
27
313
100,556
BREAKING: Hikvision's latest software offers "ethnic minority" recognition technology, even describing the feature as "isEthnic" in an API guide Hikvision has claimed for years that it stopped supporting this oppressive technology ipvm.com/reports/hikvision-m… via @ipvideo
15
233
45
411
149,887
NEW: @ipvideo investigates the deep Huawei ties of Uniview, a widely-used PRC security camera maker. Uniview was founded by Huawei and used to boast about this. But Uniview now hides its origins as it grows outside the PRC. ipvm.com/reports/huawei-univ… via @ipvideo
1
7
10
1,410
Great to see @ipvideo's founder on TIME100 AI. Scoops incl Huawei testing a face-scanning system triggering a “Uyghur alarm,” w @washingtonpost & Dahua's claim to identify Uyghurs through cameras that can alert authorities, w @latimes @astharajvanshi ti.me/3P6dWqJ
1
7
4
3,386
BREAKING: Huawei pledges to work with the Taliban as it considers an "advanced camera system" in every province of Afghanistan ipvm.com/reports/huawei-afgh… via @ipvideo
55
173
88
242
174,929
Hardware from US firm @Nvidia reportedly powering #Hikvision video analytics that allow police to single out Uyghurs from other minority groups—notwithstanding @HikvisionHQ @HikvisionUSAinc's claim that its racial profiling software was "removed" in 2018. ipvm.com/reports/hikvision-u…
11
16
2
29
7,246