2026-10-24 00:25 UTC
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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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-10-24 01:40
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.