Hikvision Defends Equipment as Secure, in Meetings at FCC
With the FCC poised to further clamp down on gear from companies on its covered list, preventing the sale of yet-to-be authorized equipment in the U.S. (see 2210130076), China’s Hikvision defended its product line and questioned whether it should be…
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on the list. Representatives of the company reported on meetings with aides to Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Nathan Simington, in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 21-232. “Nothing in the record establishes that Hikvision video surveillance equipment poses a threat to the operation or security of internet service providers’ or telecommunications carriers’ broadband networks,” the company said: “Nor does anything in the record establish that Hikvision poses a credible threat of espionage on U.S. private end users who choose to purchase and deploy Hikvision video surveillance equipment.”