Worries Concerning the Licensed Communist Merchandise Listing – Bredemarket
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What number of of you’ve got heard of the Licensed Merchandise Listing (CPL)?
The CPL’s vendor protection
This record, a part of the FBI’s Biometric Specs web site (FBI Biospecs), accommodates fingerprint card printers, fingerprint card scan programs, identification flats programs, stay scan programs, cell ID units, and different merchandise. Presence on the CPL signifies that the product complies with a related picture high quality specification comparable to Appendix F of the Digital Biometric Transmission Specification.
The Licensed Merchandise Listing has existed for the reason that Nineties and contains quite a lot of merchandise with which I’m acquainted. These merchandise come from corporations previous and current, together with 3M Cogent, Conscious, Biometrics4All, Cross Match, DataWorks Plus, IDEMIA Identification & Safety France, Identicator, Mentalix, Morpho, Motorola, NEC Applied sciences, Printrak, Sagem Protection Securite, Thales, and lots of others.
As of June 26, 2025, it additionally references corporations comparable to Shenzhen Interface Cognition Know-how Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Zhi Ang Science and Know-how Co., Ltd.
A strongly worded letter
These and different listings triggered heartburn for the bipartisan Members of the U.S. Home of Representatives Choose Committee on the Chinese language Communist Occasion.
In order that they despatched a strongly worded letter.
“We write to respectfully urge the FBI to place an finish to its ongoing certification of merchandise from Chinese language military-linked and surveillance corporations—together with corporations blacklisted or red-flagged by the U.S. authorities—that may very well be used to spy on Individuals, strengthen the repressive surveillance state of the Individuals’s Republic of China (PRC), and in any other case threaten U.S. nationwide safety.”
Curiously sufficient, they make a giant deal of Hikvision merchandise on the record, however I searched the CPL a number of occasions and located no Hikvision merchandise.
The CPL’s function
And it’s necessary to notice the FBI’s personal caveat in regards to the CPL:
“The Licensed Product Listing (CPL) supplies customers with an inventory of merchandise which were examined and are in compliance with Subsequent Era Identification picture high quality specs (IQS) concerning the seize of friction ridge photos. Specs and requirements apart from picture high quality should should be met. Look on the CPL shouldn’t be, and shouldn’t be construed as, an FBI endorsement, nor ought to it’s relied upon for any requirement past IQS. Customers ought to contact their State CJIS Programs Officer (CSO) or Data Safety Officer (ISO) to make sure compliance with the required insurance policies and/or tips.“
In different phrases, the ONLY function of the CPL is to point whether or not the merchandise in query meet expertise requirements. It has nothing to do with export controls or every other standards that any legislation enforcement company must comply with when shopping for a product.
What in regards to the U.S. Division of Commerce?
However the FBI isn’t the one company “selling” Chinese language biometrics.
Wait till the Choose Committee discovers the Division of Commerce’s NIST FRTE lists, together with the FRTE 1:1 and FRTE 1:N lists. The tops of those lists (beforehand often known as FRVT) embrace many Chinese language corporations.
And truly, the FRTE testing contains facial recognition merchandise that impressed U.S. export bans. Fingerprint units are more durable to make use of to repress folks.
What subsequent?
What occurs if the priority extends past China, to merchandise produced in France and merchandise produced in Canada?
Relating to the strongly worded letter, Biometric Replace added one element:
“As of this writing, the FBI has not issued a public response. Whether or not the bureau will transfer to decertify the flagged corporations or push again on the committee’s suggestions stays to be seen. However with a number of nationwide safety statutes already in place, and Congress signaling a willingness to legislate additional, the times of quiet certification for international adversary-linked tech companies could also be numbered.”
