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The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’
First reported by The Verge ·
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Brief pending · reported by The Verge, the single source so far
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On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC gave itself a new power - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip made by any company on its list of potential threats to national security.
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