The US federal government's hostility towards DJI is tangential to its hostility towards drone operators in general. There are real national security concerns about the ability for DJI's devices and software platforms to exfiltrate sensitive data that could be used for military strategy, corporate espionage, or even things like gaining unfair advantages in real estate and infrastructure development deals.

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It's interesting how advocating for backdoors into consumer products (like the US wanted DJI to do) suddenly makes you uneasy that there are other backdoors into those products.

I don't like Apple, but this was exactly their argument against putting in backdoors to unlock people's devices, and I support them in that.