FCC bars two devices built with Huawei HiSilicon surveillance chips
Original title: FCC bans two devices with surveillance chips linked to Huawei
A wireless video transmitter and a dashboard camera are the first products blocked under covered-list component rules that took effect October 13.
The FCC said Thursday it will not allow two devices containing surveillance chips from Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon into the U.S. market. The products are a wireless video transmitter and a dashboard camera. Rules effective October 13 ban devices with smart components from companies on the agency’s covered list; earlier rules had still allowed otherwise lawful devices to include those parts. Huawei did not immediately comment. Chairman Brendan Carr called the products potential spyware.
Unconfirmed: The FCC describes the devices as potential spyware; Huawei has not responded.
- HiSilicon markets the chips as designed for surveillance with built-in face detection.
- HiSilicon is on the FCC covered list maintained under a 2019 regulation.
- Before October 13, covered-list components were not themselves banned inside lawful devices.
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1 min read at therecord.mediaThe banned items — a wireless video transmitter and dashboard camera — are made with chips manufactured by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon, which markets its products as “designed for the surveillance market.”
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