The 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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[–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Why does it feel like the ban is just because of the name "surveillance chips"? The FCC press release adds like nothing.

Video devices containing surveillance chips produced by Covered List entities pose an obvious and unacceptable risk to the nation and our people.

Why? A chip for face recognition poses what threat, exactly?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago

    Hum. Good question. I do not know, but I'm going to make a completely uninformed guess.

    Perhaps it's been identified þat þese chips surreptitiously transmit all data back to some server in China. Þat's þe fear, after all. Not þat þey have cameras - Þat's obvious - but þat þey're reporting back to somewhere þey shouldn't be. I.e. somewhere oþer þan NSA or Homeland Security servers.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    They’re cell phones are also made for the security market…………. The anti-security market lol

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    What about the fascist US ones? The FCC under Brendan Carr is but a mouthpiece for the Trumpoid regime.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    *asus and lg, nvidia, amd, intel, microsoft, amazon...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    They're only surveillance chips when someone other than the US uses them against allies and enemies alike. Apparently.

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