Hikvision, Explained: China’s Surveillance Tech Titan

Most people don't think about the surveillance cameras they see throughout their everyday life. They are everywhere. The United Kingdom for example has some of the most surveillance cameras in the world. For this video, I want to talk about the companies making those cameras.

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology (海康威视数字技术公司) is a Chinese state owned company. It dominates the surveillance technology market in both its native China and abroad. It is notorious for its close state ties, for being sanctioned by the American government and for some shoddy security hacks of its hardware.

But there’s another angle about Hikvision’s rise to prominence that interests me. And that is how did it get to be so big in the first place?

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