Stores in the US are phasing out trade in Chinese-made surveillance cameras

Retail chains Home Depot and Best Buy have removed products from Chinese technology manufacturers from their shelves

observations. Both US retail giants have stopped selling productsLorexAndEzviz, while Lowe's no longer sells the former's products.

Lorex is a subsidiary ofDahua Technology, while Ezviz – CCTV technology brand owned byHikvision... As TechCrunch explains, in 2019, the US government put Dahua and Hikvision on its economic blacklist for their role in mass surveillance of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.

Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Timespublished a report detailing how facial recognition software developed by Dahua, the owner of Lorex, was sold to law enforcement as a way to identify Uyghurs. Meanwhile, Hikvision cameras have been installed in mosques and detention camps in Xinjiang, according to a 2019 New York Times report.

It's unclear why the retail giants decided to withdrawLorex and Ezviz products are right now, but consumers have been free to buy these security cameras for the past several years after their parent companies were placed on the US economic blacklist.

Source: techcrunch, latimes, nytimes

Illustrations: Lorex / YouTube

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