{"id":27201,"date":"2019-12-28T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/peter-navarro-us-responds-to-threat-from-chinese-drones-were-rebuilding-american-drone-industry\/"},"modified":"2019-12-28T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:38:10","slug":"peter-navarro-us-responds-to-threat-from-chinese-drones-were-rebuilding-american-drone-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/?p=27201","title":{"rendered":"Peter Navarro: US responds to threat from Chinese drones \u2013 We\u2019re rebuilding American drone industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DHS warns that Chinese-made drones are stealing data<\/a><\/h4>\n

Former special ops intelligence analyst Brett Velicovich on how Americans can keep their information safe.<\/p>\n

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Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt has grounded most of his agency\u2019s fleet of more than 800 drones for national security reasons. The drones contain Chinese parts. He has also ordered that no new Chinese<\/a> drones, or drones with Chinese components, be procured.<\/p>\n

This is what strong leadership in the Trump administration<\/a> looks like.<\/p>\n

Interior\u2019s actions represent just the latest in a string of U.S. agencies acknowledging the risks of doing business with the Chinese surveillance state.<\/p>\n

CHINESE-MADE DRONES CAN COLLECT, SEND DATA OVER THE CLOUD: DRONE COMPANY CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. Army first stopped<\/a> its use of drones from China\u2019s Da Jiang Innovations in 2017. The Department of Defense followed in May 2018 by releasing a policy suspending the procurement and use of commercially available drones.<\/p>\n

Most Chinese-made drones flying in American airspaces are manufactured by Da Jiang Innovations. DJI drones can tag imagery with GPS coordinates, including for critical American infrastructure such as roads and bridges, communications networks, research labs and military bases, power plants, and wastewater treatment facilities.<\/p>\n

DJI drones and their control software also use \u201cpersistent cookies\u201d and can capture all manner of personal information \u2013 from user identification and facial recognition data to email addresses, phone numbers, payment information, and computer credentials.<\/p>\n

According to DJI\u2019s own terms and conditions, the company has permission to collect and use your data and users are warned that data may be transferred to servers located in China.<\/p>\n

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Two legal and policy developments in China vividly highlight the risks of handing Chinese companies like DJI reams of sensitive data: First, China\u2019s 2017 National Intelligence Law requires civilian companies to cooperate with state intelligence operations. Second, the 2017 National Congress Address of President Xi Jinping has institutionalized the concept of civil-military fusion whereby companies like DJI must now \u201csupport, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work.\u201d<\/p>\n