The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/11/2026-18535/protecting-against-national-security-threats-to-the-communications-supply-chain-through-the">gave itself a new power</a> - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip made by any company on its <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist">list of potential threats to national security</a>. Today, it's exercising that power for the first time, blocking two gadgets because they contain "foreign surveillance chips," <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-426130A1.pdf">the FCC claims</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The agency doesn't say which specific gadgets it blocked, and it didn't immediately respond to our request for comment, but it does name the "surveillance chip": it's <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdocument%2F967253082%2FHi3516CV610-UHD-Smart-Vision-SoC-Data-Sheet&data=05%7C02%7CAdam.Chan%40fcc.gov%7C05021fa313074a05be4a08df2eef15b5%7C72970aed36694ca8b960dd016bc72973%7C0%7C0%7C639281276557740682%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kyDJclAqoVJQ1jE9JomOhiALZz07aFN1Nz96NRB2YAQ%3D&reserved=0">a HiVision Hi3516CV610 UHD Smart Vision SoC</a>, a chip that turns a raw camera sensor into a home security camera, a dashcam, or the like. It's often s …</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/1017016/fcc-block-foreign-surveillance-chips-hivision-huawei-loophole">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>
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