Tag: Huawei
Hikvision, Dahua feeling the squeeze as Australian audit removes cameras
February 10, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
SYDNEY – Hikvision and Dahua are off to a bad start in 2023 as sanctions from the prior year and accusations of human rights violations continue to produce repercussions for the Chinese telecoms.
In an audit released on Feb. 9, the Australian government found as many as 900 pieces of surveillance equipment manufactured by those companies were installed at government locations, on over 200 buildings, and in every department although numbers per department could not be verified. In an interview...
China vows to protect companies as U.S. moves forward with ban
December 5, 2022SSN Staff
BEIJING – Following tighter restrictions imposed by the U.S. in the ban on Chinese telecom equipment, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has indicated it will safeguard the rights of its firms.
In late November the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) introduced expanded restrictions on Chinese telecom equipment, naming five companies that will be subject to the ban including Huawei, Dahua, Hikvision, ZTE Corporation, and Hytera Communications. Last week during a...
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
November 30, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
You’ve read that title right. I’ve got the dulcet plucking of strings by Pat Metheny going on in the background as I write this, and it’s a rambling title for a rambling blog which I'll be getting to, but for now think of this as a tale of two governments.
On Nov. 25, the FCC voted to expand the ban on monitoring hardware from several different Chinese companies, chief among them Huawei, and other familiar names you have likely read on this site. While this might seem like...
FCC expands ban on Chinese monitoring devices in unanimous vote
November 28, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Nov. 25, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to expand its existing ban on telecommunications and monitoring equipment from Huawei and several other Chinese companies, citing unacceptable national security risks.
Original limitations and bans on equipment sales for the companies began as early as late 2019 under the Trump administration and the Biden administration has thus far seen fit to expand those bans which include last Friday’s vote....
DoJ snares foxes in its own trap, indicts 13
October 24, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a press conference on Oct. 24, 2022, the United States Department of Justice announced that 13 individuals have been charged - including two already in custody - in three separate cases ranging from espionage to intimidation on behalf of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
“Earlier today in the Eastern District of New York a complaint was unsealed charging two PRC intelligence officers with attempting to obstruct,...
Commerce Dept. launches CHIPS.gov as CHIPS and Science Act signed
August 25, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Commerce has launched the CHIPS.gov website in order to assist implementation of the recently signed CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.
Signed on August 25, the CHIPS and Science Act seeks to address lowering the costs of goods and creating high paying manufacturing industry jobs. Foremost among them the Semiconductor industry where the government hopes to shore up supply chain weaknesses made evident by the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and tremulous...