Major US Online Retailers Remove Listings For Millions of Prohibited Chinese Electronics
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/2236211/major-us-online-retailers-remove-listings-for-millions-of-prohibited-chinese-electronics
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> FCC Chair Brendan Carr said in an interview [on Friday] that the items removed are either on a U.S. list of barred equipment or were not authorized by the agency, including items like home security cameras and smart watches from companies including Huawei, Hangzhou Hikvision, ZTE, and Dahua Technology Company. Carr said companies are putting new processes in place to prevent future prohibited items as a result of FCC oversight. "We're going to keep our efforts up," Carr said. The FCC issued a new national security notice reminding companies of prohibited items including video surveillance equipment. Carr said the items could allow China to "surveil Americans, disrupt communications networks and otherwise threaten U.S. national security."
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/major-us-online-retailers-remove-listings-millions-prohibited-chinese-2025-10-10/
A cynic might note (Score:2)
This FCC is acting on behalf of an administration that is actively hostile to consumer rights and has expanded the capacity and reach of the surveillance state more than any other. I suppose this means that immortal Pooh will have to beg or pay Donnie for the information these devices may have stolen. Very good for the trade deficit!
Re: (Score:2)
See ... They told you this would happen if you skipped your meds.
Republicans want... (Score:2)
To control what you say, whom you worship, whom you fuck, your body, and who you can do business with.
Other than that, though, they are the REAL freedom fighters.
And next time one of these fascist freaks starts yammering about national security, remember that is also their reason why [1]you need to pay more for peanut butter [cato.org].
[1] https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/protectionism-or-national-security-use-abuse-section-232
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> To control what you say, whom you worship, whom you fuck, your body, and who you can do business with.
Last I checked, fucktard, we weren't the ones killing people for their speech. I'm also 100% sure we don't give a fuck who you worship or don't worship. Your body? CA / NY / OR / WA and the vast majority of other states still have legal abortion, fucktard. Why? Because the power to regulate that was kicked back to the STATES where it BELONGS.
I get you can't wrap your tiny brain around this concept, but that's the better situation. If the Feds control abortion, that's a single point of failure, re
"National Security" (Score:3)
Oh but i suppose every other house having chinese made ring cams, cities quietly installing 4k cams all over, and monitored by 3rd parties is completely safe. Where is my personal security and privacy? Such bullshit
They banned Hikvision (Score:2)
Trumpers will have something to say about this.
Curious (Score:2)
Most of the time the stance around here is always buyer beware. But now big government is telling you what you can and cannot buy.
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
> But now big government is telling you what you can and cannot buy.
Ironic. A little while ago there was a big thread about dieselgate. All sorts of slashsnotters creaming over cases and fines for violations of big government regulations.
Now big government enforcing regulations is unwelcome when it comes to cut rate electronic junk...
Here is my surprised face :|
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Dieselgate was VW writing special firmware to detect emissions testing and run efficiently. The rest of the time the engines were spewing noxious fumes and lying about it. We all breathe the same air.
These spying claims are much more dubious. The state and federal government buy hundreds of thousands of these same cameras to install and all of a sudden it's a problem? Will the government be removing all the currently installed Hikvision cameras?
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> Most of the time the stance around here is always buyer beware. But now big government is telling you what you can and cannot buy.
Weird... I know you liberals would never do that.. Oh wait... I can't buy gasoline powered lawn equipment or mini generators anymore because of you retards.... In less than a decade the purchase of new gasoline cars will be illegal in my state.
You think the stance on Slashdot is "Buyer Beware"? Are you actually high right now?
Are you aware of how stupid you are?
Does Hikvision backdoor your home? (Score:2)
I didn't catch why exactly they are banned. Is it because they contain some secret activation filter or maybe they phone home to China by default? A quick search found the following site (Avigilon is a competing security camera company it seems) that says Hikvision cameras are banned in multiple countries. There is a suggestion that cloud services to browse data are on Chinese servers.
[1]https://www.avigilon.com/blog/... [avigilon.com]
Then Google AI summary has the following. Looks like by default the camera punches through
[1] https://www.avigilon.com/blog/hikvision-canada-ban
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> Looks like by default the camera punches through your firewall and connects to Chinese servers, basically an auto-backdoor? That is not cool if true.
Logitech does the same thing, except I guess their servers are in, well, AI says "the US and other countries;" Logitech says nothing. Pretty much EVERY device vendor, and half the software ones, from Microsoft on down do. If you want to be able to access your device from the outside you have to punch a hole through to somewhere. It would be nice if they asked.
Surveilling Americans (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes, because surveilling Americans should be restricted to US multinationals and government agencies. We don't need help from foreign companies.
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Wasn't the health minister talking about "a smartwatch on every wrist" a few months back?
Whichever model he's trying to promote, I'm guessing it needed a little less competition in the marketplace. You can be sure it's still Chinese, though.