Posted on 08/15/2017 9:50:27 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
The world's best-selling drone-maker is adding a privacy mode to its aircraft to prevent flight data being shared to the internet.
The announcement comes a fortnight after it emerged that the US Army had prohibited its troops from using the Chinese firm's equipment because of unspecified cyber-security concerns.
DJI told the BBC that it had already been working on the new facility, but had speeded up development after the ban.
The mode should be launched next month. DJI previously faced security fears in 2016 after a member of its staff told reporters that the firm had repeatedly shared customer data with the Chinese authorities.
The US armed forces decided in July that using DJI's drones posed "operational risks", leading the US Army to detail its ban on 2 August.
The memo said that its use of the aircraft should cease, all DJI apps should be uninstalled from its computers and that all batteries and storage media should be removed from the drones while they were kept in storage.
However, the SUAS news site - which was the first to reveal the development - has since reported on a follow-up memo dated 11 August.
It indicates the army will grant exceptions to the ban once a DJI plug-in to its own drone software has been properly vetted.
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This is the blog article linked to in the BBC article with the apparent “informed” rumor.
“US Army walks back DJI decision (slightly)”
https://www.suasnews.com/2017/08/us-army-walks-back-dji-decision-slightly/
Use Litchi instead.
Even though DJI has enjoy a lion’s share of the quadcopter market, many users and potential users have been very discouraged with DJI’s effort to pander to the government with their methodology of keeping, and lack of privacy, of their customer’s use of their products.
Sounds like things are finally changing.
My question is whose government are they pandering to; ours, or the Red Chinese?
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