🛡️ NDAA (Section 889) compliance field — dataset-wide rollout

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🛡️ Overview

A first-class ndaa_compliant field on every camera record, so the dataset can answer a question installers and public-sector buyers ask constantly: "Is this camera legal to deploy under NDAA Section 889?"

Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act bans US federal use of video-surveillance gear from a named set of manufacturers. This field captures each camera's manufacturer-stated compliance and powers a tri-state badge + feature filter on the site and the public API.

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🧩 The field

// schema/camera.schema.json
"ndaa_compliant": {
  "type": "boolean",
  "description": "True if the camera is NDAA-compliant (Section 889 — no Hikvision/Dahua/HiSilicon etc. components), as stated by the manufacturer. Omit when unknown; never infer."
}

Optional & non-breaking — existing records validate unchanged. Mirrored in the web Camera type and surfaced in the UI (tri-state badge, drawer row, feature filter).

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📐 Methodology — evidence-based, never guessed

Value	Rule
✅ true	The manufacturer officially states the model is NDAA-compliant — a portfolio-wide declaration or a published compliant-model list the model appears on.
⛔ false	Either a legal fact — the brand is named in Section 889 (Hikvision, Dahua, Huawei, ZTE, Hytera) or is a wholly-owned sub-brand of one — or a manufacturer-stated per-model non-compliance: a list-based brand's own NDAA list omits that model, its datasheet makes no NDAA claim while siblings do, or it is a known OEM rebrand of a named entity.
⬜ omit	Unknown. No manufacturer statement at all, brand takes no public position, or the claim is disputed/unmappable. We do not assume.

Compliance lists/declarations are cached locally under datasheets/<brand>/ for reproducibility.

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📊 Coverage

Decided: 8,282 / 11,422 records (73%) — 3,511 ✅ · 4,771 ⛔ · 3,140 ⬜ · 47 brands marked compliant. (Last synced to main @ 2.17.0 prep — 11,422 cameras / 139 brands.)

✅ Compliant (official statement / list)

Brand	✅	Brand	✅	Brand	✅
Hanwha	572	i-PRO	504	Uniview	314
ACTi	194	Bosch	165	Milesight	159
Axis	143	Reolink	127	LILIN	110
Sunell	107	Mobotix	104	AVYCON	97
Arecont Vision	89	Digital Watchdog	70	Kenik	66
Matrix	61	Honeywell	60	Illustra	60
JideTech	38	InVid Tech	36	3xLOGIC	31
Dallmeier	30	Uniarch	29	OpenEye	27
eneo	26	VIGI	25	ClareVision	24
Vicon	24	Ajax	23	Verkada	20
Vivotek	19	GeoVision	17	Luma	17
Pelco	17	Avigilon	16	Panasonic	14
Amcrest	12	Night Owl	11	Speco Technologies	10
Comelit	8	Sparsh	8	EverFocus	7
TKH Security	7	Bolide	6	Synology	4
March Networks	2	IDIS	1

(List-based brands mark only models actually on the published list / stating it per-datasheet; unlisted models stay ⬜. Notable partial coverage: Hanwha 572/662, ACTi 194/531, Bosch 165/255, GeoVision 17/106, Kenik 66/145, Sunell 107/155, AVYCON 97/153, Amcrest 12/86, Speco 10/61, Uniview 314/353, Milesight 159/185, Comelit 8/41.)

⛔ Non-compliant

Brand	⛔	Basis
Dahua	1,982	Named entity
Hikvision	1,853	Named entity
HiLook	351	Hikvision sub-brand
ACTi	265	Model not on ACTi's official NDAA list (per-model)
IMOU	108	Dahua sub-brand
EZVIZ	87	Hikvision subsidiary
HikMicro	86	Hikvision thermal sub-brand
Prama	17	Hikvision-OEM rebrand
Milesight	12	Non-NDAA C-series variants (per-datasheet)
Sparsh	9	No NDAA claim on datasheet (per-model)
Matrix	1	No NDAA claim on datasheet (CIBR50FL40)

Two flavours of ⛔: legal fact (named entities + wholly-owned sub-brands — Hikvision/Dahua/HiLook/IMOU/EZVIZ/HikMicro) vs manufacturer-stated per-model (ACTi/Milesight/Sparsh/Matrix mark the individual models their own list/datasheet does not cover; Prama is a Hikvision-OEM rebrand). Both are evidence-based, never inferred.

⬜ Evaluated → intentionally omitted

• "Not-quite-blanket" claims: Ubiquiti, AvertX ("most" / "a range of" — no clean statement).
• Disputed / OEM-rebrand: Luminys (contested Dahua white-label), Holowits (Huawei ownership unconfirmed → not false either), Annke, LTS, IC Realtime, BCS, LaView, ClareVision-siblings, Lorex (publishes a non-compliance disclaimer).
• Unmappable list: Truen (real per-model claims, JS-rendered pages couldn't be matched).
• No published position: Tapo, Kasa, Ring, Eufy, Wyze, Xiaomi, Arlo, Google/Nest, Sony (per-model letter only), ZKTeco, Kedacom, Tiandy, ABUS, Mapesen, Urmet, FLIR, Jovision, Avtron, and the rest of the consumer/long-tail.

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🔜 Future work

• Bulk Hanwha ingest lifted 27 → 572 ✅; Mobotix 16 → 104 ✅; ACTi re-swept (194 ✅ / 265 ⛔, list-based); new India brands Matrix (61 ✅ / 1 ⛔), Prama (17 ⛔, Hik-OEM), Sparsh (8 ✅ / 9 ⛔, per-datasheet) added this cycle.
• Refresh the remaining list-based brands (Uniview, Sunell, AVYCON, GeoVision, Kenik, Speco, Comelit, TKH) against newer list revisions to lift currently-omitted current-gen models.
• Re-check the "not-quite-blanket" brands (Ubiquiti, AvertX, Truen) if they publish a definitive statement/list.
• Long-tail brands with no position today — revisit if they publish one.

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⚠️ Notes

• false ≠ "bad camera" — it reflects Section 889 naming or a manufacturer's own per-model position, relevant only to US federal procurement.
• NDAA ≠ TAA (Trade Agreements Act / country-of-origin) — a separate axis, intentionally out of scope.
• Everything is backed by an official manufacturer source; nothing is inferred from country, components, or reputation.