It’s hard to forget the holiday season of 2015. You could walk into a Best Buy and walk out with a DJI Phantom 3 Standard for $250. Black Friday sales had taken an already well-priced drone and made it a must have item for a lot of American households.
DJI Denies Providing User Data to Chinese Government
Key Takeaways:
- A Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) report alleges DJI engaged in illegal "dumping" practices by aggressively dropping drone prices in 2015, effectively forcing competitors out of the U.S. market.
- The HSI report claims DJI collects sensitive U.S. data from government and private entities, which the Chinese government could exploit for economic gain (e.g., real estate acquisitions) or potentially for physical/cybernetic attacks against critical infrastructure.
- Examples of data exploitation include information gathered by NDVI scanners used by California wine producers, with Chinese companies subsequently purchasing vineyards in the same areas.
- DJI denies all allegations of wrongdoing, stating past server access issues were due to "inexcusable" developer behavior and refuting claims of silencing bug bounty participants.
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