Dahua and Hikvision are accused of being connected to China’s military and human rights abuses. Amazon profits by selling their products online.

Selling their products isn’t illegal, but it does raise ethical questions for tech analysts like Lindsay Gorman. 

“Companies like Amazon need to have robust due diligence practices and do a scan of all their products, where they source them, and understand really deeply the connections between those products and some of the abuses we’ve seen,” she says.