US Should Sanction Chinese Drone Maker DJI for Sending Data to China, Report Says
US Should Sanction Chinese Drone Maker DJI for Sending Data to China, Report Says
For YEARS Chinese firm DJI has been collecting critical infrastructure data and sending it directly back to the CCP via the communications device used to control the drones. Often, this is the users own personal cell phone.
Synacktiv, in a report issued in July, reverse-engineered the Android version of a mobile app called DJI Go 4, which allows users to control DJI drones through their electronic devices. It found that the app was collecting a vast amount of personal user data, including the serial number of the phone’s SIM card, the phone’s identity number IMEI, and the phone’s IMSI, a unique number that telecoms companies use to identify a SIM.
“This data is not relevant or necessary for drone flights and go beyond DJI privacy policy,” stated Synacktiv. It then warned that these data “can be used by intelligence agencies or malicious people to later track individuals or eavesdrop communications.”
If you own and fly a DJI drone, you most likely are inadvertently providing critical data on the US to the CCP and they are also gathering information about you personally.
US Should Sanction Chinese Drone Maker DJI for Sending Data to China, Report Says
For YEARS Chinese firm DJI has been collecting critical infrastructure data and sending it directly back to the CCP via the communications device used to control the drones. Often, this is the users own personal cell phone.
Synacktiv, in a report issued in July, reverse-engineered the Android version of a mobile app called DJI Go 4, which allows users to control DJI drones through their electronic devices. It found that the app was collecting a vast amount of personal user data, including the serial number of the phone’s SIM card, the phone’s identity number IMEI, and the phone’s IMSI, a unique number that telecoms companies use to identify a SIM.
“This data is not relevant or necessary for drone flights and go beyond DJI privacy policy,” stated Synacktiv. It then warned that these data “can be used by intelligence agencies or malicious people to later track individuals or eavesdrop communications.”
If you own and fly a DJI drone, you most likely are inadvertently providing critical data on the US to the CCP and they are also gathering information about you personally.
