As late US President Ronald Reagan might (again) say, “there you go again.” Militants of widening bans on Chinese tech sold in the US have again locked DJI drones into their sites as security threats – with the crosshairs this time belonging to the senior Republican commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
On Tuesday, commissioner Brendan Carr urged that DJI drones and other products be added to the FCC’s Covered List, which prohibits government funds to be spent on goods produced by blacklisted companies. Appointed by former President Donald Trump, and a leading advocate of cracking down on what he calls security threats posed by Chinese companies in the US, Carr likened DJI to the telecom giant Huawei. That company was slapped with US bans in 2019 on fears its mobile phones and infrastructure could soak up vast data flows from individuals, businesses, and government administrations using them.
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