Security cameras guarding Magna Carta are provided by a Chinese CCTV company whose technology has allegedly aided the persecution of Uyghurs and been exploited by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.
In letters seen by the Guardian, campaigners called on Salisbury Cathedral, which houses one of four surviving copies of the “powerful symbol of social justice”, to rip out cameras made by Dahua Technology, based in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
They have also written to the authorities responsible for the Parthenon temple in Greece, which is monitored by cameras produced by another Chinese company, Hikvision.
Cameras made by the firms have already been removed from sensitive UK government sites, over concerns that they could be remotely accessed by China and used to spy on sensitive sites.
I’ve been really happy with Reolink stuff. My old ONVIF-supporting doorbell camera died so I ended up replacing it with a Reolink because of their great home assistant integration and I ended up getting some more of their cameras. Their app is nice too, and recordings are all stored locally on microSD cards, no cloud account required.
I like there being no requirement for a cloud account, but the storage being on a card in the camera seems vulnerable. What’s to keep someone from taking the card?
They also have an NVR that you can connect the cameras to, it has a hard drive that can store data from the cameras if you don’t want to use an micro sd card for each