Despite assurances for years that Hikvision has stopped minority analytics, just 7 months ago local PRC authorities awarded a $6 million contract that explicitly requires Hikvision analytics to identify Uyghurs (维族), powered by NVIDIA hardware, security specialist IPVM says.
You have got to be kidding me. The company’s name is Hick Vision??
Yes, It is typically pronounced “hike-vision” though.
Because some marketing person realized it was a really bad idea to call a company Hick Vision, but it was too late to stop the founders from doing so?
It’s a Chinese name for a Chinese company.
Just an English transliteration of part of their Chinese name “hǎi kāng wēi shì”
I’m surprised you hadn’t heard of them before. They’re the largest security camera manufacturer in the world, rebranded under a bunch of different brand names. It’s likely you walk past many of their security cameras every day. The majority of security cameras are either Hikvision or Dahua.