FCC Says Clean Carts' First Year Blocked or Removed More Than 18 Million Listings for Prohibited Devices
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on November 13 that its Enforcement Bureau had released a Public Notice highlighting more than a year of Operation Clean Carts and publishing a detailed list of best practices for e-commerce platforms.
Federal law prohibits the sale or marketing, including on e-commerce platforms, of certain electronic equipment on the agency's Covered List because the devices have been found to pose national security risks. Since Chairman Brendan Carr first announced the operation, the FCC has worked with leading e-commerce companies to rid their platforms of such devices, the agency said.
Over the past year, participating platforms reported blocking or removing more than 18 million listings for devices subject to the Covered List restrictions or otherwise prohibited under the Commission's regulations. Certain platforms also took internal enforcement actions against more than 125,000 third-party sellers who tried to circumvent platform compliance mechanisms.
The nine voluntary best practices fall under three pillars: automated detection and intake systems, including large-language-model and machine-learning scanning of titles, descriptions and images and validation of FCC IDs; merchant verification and onboarding controls, including collecting U.S. responsible-party information, probationary periods for high-risk new sellers from foreign adversary nations, and query-level blocks on absolutely prohibited entities such as Huawei, ZTE and Kaspersky Lab; and post-market monitoring and lifecycle enforcement, including human review triggered by compliance scores, automatic suppression of unverifiable listings, and persistent relisting blocks. The FCC said the practices are voluntary and platforms may demonstrate compliance by other means.
Carr said the operation ensures that insecure devices on the Covered List are not illicitly sold online in America, and that the removal of 18 million listings advances the security of the American people and their networks.
(Source: U.S. Federal Communications Commission)
Source: U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席 Brendan Carr 官方肖像（公共领域，预裁 16:9）。 / Photo: Official portrait of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr (public domain, pre-cropped to 16:9).
