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'We're Not Being Paranoid': U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
Drones have become an increasingly popular tool for industry and government. Electric utilities use them to inspect transmission lines. Oil companies fly them over pipelines. The Interior Department even deployed them to track lava flows at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.
But the Department of Homeland Security is warning that drones manufactured by Chinese companies could pose security risks, including that the data they gather could be stolen.
The department sent out an alert on the subject on May 20, and a video on its website notes that drones in general pose multiple threats, including "their potential use for terrorism, mass casualty incidents, interference with air traffic, as well as corporate espionage and invasions of privacy." "We're not being paranoid," the video's narrator adds.
Related: Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday May 30 2019, @04:23PM
While part of the issue is that Huawei, et al are entangled with the Chinese government. The true issue is the policy (written or unwritten) of the government, not the fact that the government is heavily involved with said company. When you have a foreign company that is being propped up / heavily subsidized to the point that it's hurting your own nation's companies. You have to do something. Thus, tariffs. When you have a foreign company that is quite possibly producing hardware that phones home / spies on / x bad thing, you make sure they're not in your national infrastructure.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"