{"id":216915,"date":"2025-07-01T06:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hikvision-canada-ordered-to-cease-operations-over-security-risks"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:13:28","slug":"hikvision-canada-ordered-to-cease-operations-over-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hikvision-canada-ordered-to-cease-operations-over-security-risks","title":{"rendered":"Hikvision Canada ordered to cease operations over security risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hikvision-canada-ordered-to-cease-operations-over-security-risks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government has ordered Hikvision\u2019s subsidiary in the country to cease all operations following a review that determined them to pose a national security risk.<\/p>\n<p>The order was forwarded to Hikvision last Friday, and the matter was made public over the weekend by M\u00e9lanie Joly, Canada\u2019s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing a National Security Review under the Investment Canada Act, the Government of Canada has ordered Hikvision Canada Inc. to cease all operations in Canada and close its Canadian business,\u201d reads the <a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/melaniejoly\/status\/1938771436988137969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government has ordered Hikvision\u2019s subsidiary in the country to cease all operations following a review that determined them to pose a national security risk. The order was forwarded to Hikvision last Friday, and the matter was made public over the weekend by M\u00e9lanie Joly, Canada\u2019s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. \u201cFollowing a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}