The banned items — a wireless video transmitter and dashboard camera — are made with chips manufactured by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon, which markets its products as “designed for the surveillance market.”

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    3 days ago

    Hum. Good question. I do not know, but I’m going to make a completely uninformed guess.

    Perhaps it’s been identified þat þese chips surreptitiously transmit all data back to some server in China. Þat’s þe fear, after all. Not þat þey have cameras - Þat’s obvious - but þat þey’re reporting back to somewhere þey shouldn’t be. I.e. somewhere oþer þan NSA or Homeland Security servers.