D.C. Circuit Denies Hikvision Gear Authorization Request
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Thursday rejected Hikvision’s request that the court order the FCC to begin processing the Chinese company’s authorization requests for gear it wants to sell in the U.S. (see 2502240045). The…
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FCC had asked the court not to take that step (see 2502110040). Hikvision said many of the products it sells can’t be connected to the internet. The court issued a brief order saying the motion was denied. Hikvision and Dahua won a partial victory last year (see 2404020068) when the D.C. Circuit found that the FCC’s definition of critical infrastructure in a 2022 order was “overly broad.”