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IPVM
Type of businessCorporation
Type of site
Investigative journalism, technology journalism
Available inEnglish
Founded2008; 16 years ago (2008)
HeadquartersBethlehem, Pennsylvania,
United States
Country of originUnited States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)John Honovich
EditorCarl Stoffers
PresidentJohn Honovich
CEOJohn Honovich
IndustryClosed-circuit television, access control
ServicesProduct testing
ParentIP Video Market Info Inc.
URLipvm.com
AdvertisingNo
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2008
Current statusLive
[1][2][3][4]

IPVM is a surveillance industry research group based in the United States.[1][5][6] IPVM gained recognition in 2020 and 2021 for its reporting on the use of thermal imaging cameras during the COVID-19 pandemic[7][8][9] and for covering how PRC-based technology firms Alibaba,[5][10][11] Dahua Technology,[12][13] Huawei[12][14][15] and Megvii[12][13] filed patents for face detection technology designed to target Uyghurs.

History

In 2008, John Honovich launched IPVM, an initialism of Internet Protocol Video Market, in Hawaii.[1] The website's first article was published on April 10, 2008.[16]

In October 2018, Reporters Without Borders condemned the Chinese government’s decision to block IPVM's website behind the Great Firewall.[17]

In December 2019, IPVM opened a 12,000 sq. ft. (1,115 m2) research facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where it tests video surveillance hardware and software from manufacturers such as AnyVision, Avigilon, Axis Communications, Dahua, and Hikvision.[1][18]

In March 2021, the Journal of Biomedical Optics published a study by five IPVM researchers and a U.S. military medical service officer on the problems with COVID-19 fever screening devices.[19] The study was funded by IPVM and conducted at its Pennsylvania research facility.[19]

In May 2021, the BBC aired Are You Scared Yet, Human?, a Panorama documentary featuring an interview with IPVM on Dahua Technology's, Hikvision's, and Huawei's roles in developing mass surveillance technologies in China, including technological products designed to identify Uyghurs.[20]

In September 2021, IPVM named Kean University professor and former The New York Times Upfront editor Carl Stoffers as its managing editor.[2] Also in September 2021, IPVM presented an expert statement to the Uyghur Tribunal in the United Kingdom.[21][22]

Joint investigations

In 2020, The Washington Post and IPVM jointly reported on Huawei's testing of facial recognition technology designed to identify Uyghurs.[23][24]

In 2021, IPVM partnered with TechCrunch to examine U.S. local governments' purchases and U.S. retailers' sales of surveillance equipment manufactured by companies linked to Uyghur abuses[25][26] as well as with The Intercept to investigate the U.S. military's purchase of sanctioned cameras for the U.S. embassy in Caracas.[27]

In 2022, IPVM partnered with the MIT Technology Review to examine an Israeli company's plan to develop DNA-based facial recognition.[28]

Controversies

Hikvision

In July 2021, Hikvision resigned its membership in the Security Industry Association, a U.S.-based trade association, citing in its resignation letter that it had been "harassed and maligned" by IPVM.[29][30][31] Hikvision further claimed that IPVM had engaged in "unethical hacking" of its cameras and that IPVM had published "misleading blog stories."[29][30][31]

In January 2022, Axios reported that Hikvision had asked U.S. congressional ethics officials to investigate potential lobbying disclosure violations by IPVM.[32] U.S. senator Marco Rubio and congresswoman Claudia Tenney retweeted the Axios article,[33][34] urging their congressional colleagues to ignore Hikvision while claiming that Hikvision's accusations against IPVM amounted to censorship.[33][34][35]

Global Times

In November 2021, Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party, published an article by Gao Lei writing under the pen name 耿直哥,[36] or Candid Brother, to its Baidu[37] and WeChat[38] accounts criticizing IPVM as a U.S. government mouthpiece parading as a civilian company. Lei also compared IPVM founder John Honovich to German anthropologist Adrian Zenz and claimed that another IPVM employee is "a rather extreme white right-winger."[37][38]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Salamone, Anthony (2020-01-02). "Who's watching those who monitor us with video surveillance? A Lehigh Valley company, that's who". The Morning Call. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  2. ^ a b "IPVM Names First Managing Editor Carl Stoffers" (Press release). Bethlehem, Pa.: PR Newswire. 2021-09-07. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Privacy Policy". IPVM. 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2021-10-26. Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to IP Video Market Info Inc., 3713 Linden St, Bethlehem, PA 18020.
  4. ^ "IP VIDEO MARKET INFO INC". Hawaii Business Express. Business Registration Division, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Retrieved 2021-11-02. HONOVICH,JOHN CEO/P/D
  5. ^ a b "Alibaba says its technology won't target Uighurs". BBC. 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  6. ^ "Huawei aurait bien déposé un brevet pour une technologie d'identification des Ouïgours". 20 minutes (in French). 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  7. ^ Singer, Natsha (2020-05-19). "A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  8. ^ Harwell, Drew (2020-05-11). "Thermal scanners are the latest technology being deployed to detect the coronavirus. But they don't really work". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  9. ^ Xiao, Eva (2020-05-21). "Covid-19 Raises Demand for Temperature Scanners". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  10. ^ Zhong, Raymond (2020-12-16). "As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  11. ^ Davidson, Helen (2020-12-17). "Alibaba offered clients facial recognition to identify Uighur people, report reveals". The Guardian. Taipei. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  12. ^ a b c Kelion, Leo (2021-01-13). "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech". BBC. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  13. ^ a b Asher-Schapiro, Avi (2021-01-21). "Chinese companies patent Uighur-spotting tech". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  14. ^ Dou, Eva; Harwell, Drew (2020-12-12). "Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity, documents show". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  15. ^ Kharpal, Arjun (2021-01-14). "China A.I. firms and Huawei filed to patent technology that could identify Uighur Muslims, report says". CNBC. Guangzhou, China. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  16. ^ Honovich, John (2008-04-10). "March Revealing Details on Strategy Shift". IPVM. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  17. ^ "China censors US publication focusing on the video surveillance industry". Reporters Without Borders. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  18. ^ "World's First AI Video Surveillance Testing Facility Opened by IPVM" (Press release). Bethlehem, Pa.: PR Newswire. 2019-12-16. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  19. ^ a b Healy, Conor; Segal, Zachary; Hinnerichs, Chris; Ace, Ethan; Ward, Derek; Honovich, John (2021-03-13). "Globally deployed COVID-19 fever screening devices using infrared thermographs consistently normalize high readings to afebrile range". Journal of Biomedical Optics. 26 (4): 043009. doi:10.1117/1.JBO.26.4.043009. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  20. ^ Are You Scared Yet, Human? (Television production). BBC. 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  21. ^ "Statements". Uyghur Tribunal. Uyghur Tribunal. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  22. ^ Conor Healy (2021-08-20). Uyghur Surveillance & Ethnicity Detection Analytics in China (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  23. ^ Wong, Alan (2020-12-16). "Senior Huawei Executive Resigns Over Muslim-Tracking Technology". Vice News. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  24. ^ Nogueira, Luiz (2020-12-16). "Huawei executive resigns after controversy with facial recognition system for Muslims". Olhar Digital. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  25. ^ Whittaker, Zack (2021-05-24). "US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  26. ^ Whittaker, Zack (2021-10-25). "US retail giants pull Chinese surveillance tech from shelves". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  27. ^ Biddle, Sam (2021-07-20). "U.S. MILITARY BOUGHT CAMERAS IN VIOLATION OF AMERICA'S OWN CHINA SANCTIONS". The Intercept. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  28. ^ Ryan-Mosley, Tate (2022-01-31). "This company says it's developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  29. ^ a b Griffin, Joel (2021-07-21). "Hikvision resigns its SIA membership". SecurityInfoWatch.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  30. ^ a b Bosch, Rodney (2021-07-26). "Hikvision Submits Membership Resignation Letter to SIA". Security Sales & Integration. Silver Spring, Md. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  31. ^ a b Cimpanu, Catalin (2021-07-25). "Dahua, Hikvision out of security camera industry group". The Record. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
  32. ^ Markay, Lachlan (2022-01-04). "Scoop: Chinese surveillance firm ramps up fight against regulators". Axios. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  33. ^ a b @SenRubioPress (January 4, 2022). "Chinese Communist companies have no place in the U.S. surveillance industry, and Sen. Rubio's Secure Equipment Act, which is current law, makes that crystal-clear. Congress should pay no heed to #CCP propaganda and dismiss Hikvision's pathetic claims against @ipvideo" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  34. ^ a b @RepTenney (January 4, 2022). "Chinese state-directed surveillance firm @HikvisionHQ is not content with just violating human rights in China, now they're trying to silence dissent and import #CCP style censorship to the US. Congress should ignore Hikvision's smear campaign against @ipvideo" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  35. ^ "Rubio, Tenney Urge Senate Secretary, House Clerk to Reject Attempts by Chinese Communist Party to Silence American Publisher" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: Marco Rubio US Senator for Florida. 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  36. ^ https://www.zhihu.com/people/huan-qiu-shi-bao
  37. ^ a b "境外舆论场掀起新一波妖魔化中国的攻势！" [Overseas public opinion sets off a new wave of offensive attack to demonize China!] (in Chinese). 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  38. ^ a b 耿直哥 (2021-11-30). "境外舆论场掀起新一波妖魔化中国的攻势！" [Overseas public opinion sets off a new wave of offensive attack to demonize China!] (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-11-30.

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