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Top FCC Official Calls For Ban of DJI Drones, Citing National Security Risk:
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has called for the addition of DJI drones to the FCC Covered List, which could prevent the company from selling its products in the United States.
In a letter published to the FCC official website, Carr accuses the Shenzhen-based drone company of collecting “vast amounts” of sensitive data and effectively calls the drones Chinese surveillance.
[...] Carr says that one former Pentagon official has even said that the government agency knew — written as a statement of fact — that much of that information was being sent back to China from DJI drones.
“DJI’s collection of vast troves of sensitive data is especially troubling given that China’s National Intelligence Law grants the Chinese government the power to compel DJI to assist it in espionage activities,” Carr says.
DJI was placed on the Commerce Department’s Entity List last year, [...] Its placement there made it so that American companies could not export parts to DJI. Companies on the [list] would theoretically find it harder to sell products in the United States, but DJI does not appear to have suffered this problem.
Carr says that many of the concerns he has are linked to DJI’s widespread use by various state and local public safety and law enforcement agencies. There are also reports that the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI also use DJI drones, which Carr says makes it even more important that a full review of DJI is conducted to address potential national security threats.
He's not wrong, but speaking as an ex-employer of a US based drone development company in 2010-2012, I believe this problem could have been significantly mitigated by encouraging domestic development instead of stifling it back then.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday October 22 2021, @01:09AM (2 children)
If Chinese products were outlawed to sell, only outlaws could buy Chinese products... wait, what did I just said??
Anyway. Guys, your current version of Capitalism is funny so much.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday October 22 2021, @01:51AM (1 child)
Well, I don't think "Capitalism" should be worhsipped, but if I did I wouldn't see anything wrong with demanding a level playing field at the national level. I could probably find some quotes from Adam Smith to support that.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday October 22 2021, @11:00AM
Drone regulation has been heavily anti capitalist in the US domestic market. Want to make a living developing drones in the US? Your legal customers were the military, hobbyists who are forbidden from making money using your products, and international customers who have similar drone development companies in their own country to choose from.
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