Chinese biometric surveillance developers Nuctech, Hikvision under scrutiny again

Chinese surveillance equipment maker Nuctech, which has been blacklisted in the U.S. and restricted in the European Union, is attracting attention after supplying biometrics products to Serbian border control.

In October, the Serbian Interior Ministry announced a donation of mobile scanners from China to help handle the increased influx of migrants passing through Serbia along the so-called Balkan Route. The company behind the scanners was identified as Nuctech, a partially state-owned company known for manufacturing X-ray machines, explosive-detection systems …

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