China’s Consumer Drones are a National Security Threat: “As good as a hovering spy”

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • National Security Threat: China’s Eyes in America
  • The Chinese company DJI controls nearly 90% of the world market for consumer and commercial grade drones.
  • The excellent reporting on DJI by Kitchen tracks efforts by the company to lobby against passage of a bill called the American Security Drone Act (ASDA), now before Congress, to outlaw federal government use of DJI products entirely. What is the risk? Not only the data gathered by the drones themselves, but everything collected by the mobile app with which users control their drones and manage their DJI accounts. Like many other mobile applications, this includes a user’s contacts, photos, GPS location, and online activities.
  • Every DJI drone in the skies above America is as good as a hovering Chinese spy.

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