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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 firs…

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