FCC Commissioner Urges Eliminating Dahua/Hikvision From USA

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*** ************ ******* ************* ********* ** ***** ******** *** *** "**** *******" ** "close * ******* ******** ******** **** allows ******** ******* ** ******** ** be **** ** *.*. *******":

** ** **** **close **** ******* ********. Once we have determined that Huawei or other gear poses an unacceptable national security risk,it ***** ** ***** to allow that exact same equipment to be purchased and inserted into our communications networks as **** ** ******* ******* *** *** ********. The presence of these insecure devices in our networks is the threat, not the source of funding used to purchase them. Yet the FCC, through its equipment authorization process, continues ** ******* *** *** ** *** *.*. ********* ** ************ **** ****** *** ***** ******** ****** ******** ******** *******. The FCC should move swiftly to eliminate ********* *****’* ******** into our networks. [emphasis added]

*** "********" **** ******** ** ** the ****** ******** ***, ***** ****** telecom ******** ** *** ****** ********* as **** ** **** ****'* ***** so **** ******* *****. ********* *** Dahua ********* ** *** ****** ******** ******* *****.

Hikvision, ***** ********* ********* "**** ** *****"

****'* *************** *** *** *** *** ********* Hikvision *** ***** ********* ************:

** ******** ** **** ****, *** FCC ******** ************ ****Hikvision *** ***** for video surveillance and facial recognition equipment.

********* ******** ** *** ***** *****, **** ***** **** ** "***** no *****" *** ********* "** ******** to *** *** *** ** ******* their *******":

*****, ** **** ***** ******** ** stopping *** ******** *** *** ** this ********* **** ******* *******, *** it ********* **make ** ***** to have this back door that is wide open for communist China, for Huawei, for ZTE, for *********, to continue to get the FCC to approve their devices.

Uyghur ****** "********" ** *** **************

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****’* ***we **** ** **** ** *** ********* ************* *******. Not only if you’re using forced labor as I’ve called for, but if you have these entities that are engaging ** ****-***** ************, ******* **’* ****** ** ******, * ***** **** ****** ** ******** ** *** ****** ** ******* *** *** ** ** ******** ** *** *.*. So I think that ***** **** ** **** ** ** ****** ** *** *** ********* ************* ******* [...] There’s no world in which, as a practical matter, you can have a company like Huawei that engages in the race-based ************ and other practices in China, and yet create a wall in which they’re going to respect Western values when they do business in America [...] The idea that these entities like Huawei are going to engage in one set of practices in communist China, including race-based ************ ** ******* and not engage in illicit practices in the U.S., just ****** *****.

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FCC ********* ************** ********

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Risk ** ***** *** ********* *** ********

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Likelihood ********

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******, ******'* ******** ** **** ***** *** Hikvision * "******" ** ******** ************ ***** *** ***** **************.

Hikvision, ***** ***** ******

** ***, ******* *** ** **********'***** *********** ****** *********,** *** ******** **** *** **** private ** ********** ** *** ********* and ***** ********.

****'* ******** *** * ****** **** this *** ******. ******* ** ****, though, ******* ** ** ****.

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