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President of Hikvision

Yangzhong

Hikvision

I am writing to you because I am concerned about the serious human rights violations suffered by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, and how these have been further entrenched/supported by the deployment of surveillance technologies. In the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT), facial recognition is one of the measures that contributes to the  discrimination, segregation, and oppression that are part of Israel’s apartheid against  the Palestinians .
Imagery from any camera, regardless of its age, can be fed into facial recognition software, as long as the resolution of the input cameras allows for faces to be identified. Facial recognition software then compares the imagery with a large database of images, many scraped without the people’s knowledge and consent, in search for a match, or automatically registers unknown faces into the database. 
As Amnesty International’s research has shown, there is a high risk that your CCTV products are being used together for facial recognition in occupied East Jerusalem. The Mabat 2000 networked surveillance system in the city includes object, anomaly, and facial recognition. A central Command and Control centre operated by Israeli police uses the system––and the at least 1,000 cameras that it is connected to–– to watch movements of residents in the Old City in East Jerusalem 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

You must now formulate public plans and commitments to ensure your products cannot be used to  entrench or otherwise support Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians, or risk being  complicit in the perpetuation of this system that has been found to amount to a crime against humanity. Will you commit to cease the sale of tools that can be used for facial recognition, in support of Israel’s apartheid against the Palestinians?

Sincerely,

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