D.C. Circuit Partly Vacates FCC Order Banning Chinese Firms’ Surveillance Products

(April 4, 2024, 2:06 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that the Federal Communications Commission was within its authority to ban the video surveillance equipment of two Chinese-owned companies for certain uses in the United States, the panel partly vacated the FCC order enforcing the ban, finding the commission’s definition of “critical infrastructure” in the order to be “overly broad.”...