Bad for Americans, permanent grounding for casual drone use a possibility

[MMFlyer]

US may permanently ground civilian drone program over China fears

The US Interior Department's decision to halt a civilian drone program might not be so temporary. Financial Times sources claim the department plans to permanently end use of nearly 1,000 drones after determining there was too high a risk of the Chinese government using them for spying...

www.engadget.com

 

[Meta4]

US may permanently ground civilian drone program over China fears

The US Interior Department's decision to halt a civilian drone program might not be so temporary. Financial Times sources claim the department plans to permanently end use of nearly 1,000 drones after determining there was too high a risk of the Chinese government using them for spying...

www.engadget.com

It's not about grounding drones flown by the public.
It's about silly political wrangling grounding <1000 drones flown by the US Dept of the Interior.

 

[Thomas B]

As above ... no civilian drones grounded. Just about the government’s drones.... which the taxpayers will once again gave to pay for!
The article has been multiply posted for a while
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