Last December, President Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024, which contained restrictive provisions originally proposed in the American Security Drone Act (ASDA) of 2023. In a recent blog, DJI outlined the steps it has taken to ensure the security of its customers data. Operators of our consumer and enterprise drones can choose to ‘fly offline’ through Local Data Mode, ensuring that no unauthorized parties can get access to their drone data. “So, basically Chinese companies are intimately tied to the government, to the military and are in effect, arms of the military, information-gathering and -collecting, data-providing arms of Beijing,” he said. “There needs to be a standardized practice that all drone manufacturers need to be beholden to, regardless of origin, from a data security perspective, and that standard has yet to be set,” Karr said.

Source: Forbes March 01, 2024 19:38 UTC