10/22/2026
Tech Pulse · consumer-tech

The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’

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The FCC is beginning to block gadgets with ‘foreign surveillance chips’
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. Today, it's exercising that power for the first time, blocking two gadgets because they contain "foreign surveillance chips," the FCC claims. […]
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