Sixty-seven MPs and Lords have said Hikvision and Dahua surveillance equipment should be banned.
or control its devices once they are passed to installers - in its latest governance report it said it "continued to seek best practices to prevent end user's improper use of products, which leads to interference with human rights".said that it follows "all applicable local, national and international laws, regulations and conventions" and states that it "has not and never will develop solutions targeting any specific ethnic group.
A recent proposal by the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner, Fraser Sampson, to include consideration of suppliers' human rights record in the rules regulating police and local authorities' CCTV use was rejected by government.Responding to news of the call for a ban, Prof Sampson told the BBC: "The people we trust - the police and other emergency services, local authorities and the government itself - must be able to trust their surveillance partners".
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