Hikvision Proposes Confidential Compliance Plan To FCC
While Hikvision is suing the US Government to overturn the FCC's ban on future equipment authorizations, Hikvision has now acknowledged/submitted a compliance plan to the FCC, but requests it remains confidential for "highly sensitive, commercial reasons", like Dahua.
Hikvision's confidentiality request means the public risks being unable to scrutinize and comment on its plan, raising the same transparency and public interest concerns IPVM brought up for Dahua.
In this post, IPVM examines Hikvision's confidentiality request, the details it reveals about Hikvision's compliance plan and the FCC's possible responses.
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Hikvision ******* *************** *******
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**** ****** ** ******** **** **** blanket ************ ********* ** ****** *** any ********** ***** ********* ** ******* entities, *** **** ********** ** ********* only ***** ******* *********. **** ** critical ** *** ******* ** *** FCC’s *** ********* ************* *****
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FCC *** ** *******, *** ** *** *** *******
*** *** *** ** *** *** agree **** *********'* *************** ******* *** so *** *** *** ********* ** Dahua's. (************** **************** ****, ******** "** ****** **********" and ****** "******* *************".)
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*** *** *** *** *** ******** responded ** ********* ** *****'* ***** nor ***** *************** ********.
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**** ********'* **** *-**** **********.
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****’* ******* ** **** **** ***** split *** ***** *** **** * brand ******* ** ******** ******** *** not **** ** *** ******** ***********.
**** ***** **** **** ***** ******** products ******** **** **** **** **** to ***** ********* *** **** ** not ** ****. ***?
**** ***** ***** *** ***** *** keep * ***** ******* ** ******** products *** *** **** ** *** military ***********.
**** ******** *** **** -********* ***** *******, *** ****** *** Financials ********
********* ******* ******* ** **********, ***********, etc.
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