Of course an Insurance Company would want to know what kind of a driver you are. After all, they are on the hook if you screw up. Why would you be surprised that an insurance company would want to monitor your driving? I agree that Google Maps has a vast storehouse of pictures that are freely available on the WWW. There certainly is a risk there if you have something to hide.D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China
Wrong, they might not be, THEY ARE and have been for a while. I trust the US Army to be my anti-malware informer.
My insurance company wanted me to install a device in my car so I could get an insurance discount. There were other reasons up their sleeve.
What was the device that the insurance company want to use . Here in Canada they follow the US a couple years behind
Of course an Insurance Company would want to know what kind of a driver you are. After all, they are on the hook if you screw up. Why would you be surprised that an insurance company would want to monitor your driving? I agree that Google Maps has a vast storehouse of pictures that are freely available on the WWW. There certainly is a risk there if you have something to hide.
Can you imagine, at a time if a tense standoff between the US and China, all DJI drones suddenly remotely activate and strategically swarm to their nearest critical infrastructure and self destruct by initiating a thermal runaway? The results may be better than what happened when the US tried to use suicide bat bombs against Japan. Oh the humanity!
Can you imagine, at a time if a tense standoff between the US and China, all DJI drones suddenly remotely activate and strategically swarm to their nearest critical infrastructure and self destruct by initiating a thermal runaway? The results may be better than what happened when the US tried to use suicide bat bombs against Japan. Oh the humanity!
You really could not make up this sort of paranoia.
Lots of threads from people inthe US shouting about China "Spying"
Equal or greater number of threads complaining about DJI NFZ being over zellous and you can't fly anywhere
Which is it?
It seems China is spying on open public areas with nothing sensitive in them where 95% of the video captured in the areas "spied" on is uploaded by the American pilots to the US systems Youtube Vimeo etc. This also includes some videos I have seen from flyers trying to see inside NFZ because they don't know what is in them (they are secret)
As mentioned if you want to spy on the USA Instagram Facebook, Youtube and Google Earth are the best sources. They al seem to be American Systems.
As for spying .... AT&T exchanges anyone.?
I've looked at hundreds of flight records and I haven't learned a thing about critical infrastructure from it.
I see that lots of people fly in parks, beaches, mountains, forests and their backyards.
I see that some fly high or far and some crash but still nothing spy worthy.
If China is hoping to gather worthwhile information, data from DJI drones would have to be one of the worst ways they could attempt to do it.
Just FYI, Youtube and Vimeo are American owned companies. Not owned by Chinese Nationals.
I agree, if anyone in China thinks that they can gather critical data from monitoring my flights then I’m afraid they’re smoking something illegal!
Google earth has far more data that’s of higher quality that DJI drones can provide.
that is what I said
"It seems China is spying on open public areas with nothing sensitive in them where 95% of the video captured in the areas "spied" on is uploaded by the American pilots to the US systems Youtube Vimeo etc."
And the other 5% could be of US military installations, data which was secretly extracted by the Chinese from US Army flight logs and media.
The military took this matter very seriously. So did I. Army got caught with its pants down and DJI got caught with its hand in the cookie jar.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you!The allegations could not be independently confirmed but you wonder!
Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Officials Say
I aggree the US Army got caught with it's pants down.
They made a VERY basic mistake.
These are the people you said you trusted.
it is an offtopic, but, the one and only reason for nuclear explosions was to demo to Stalin what will allies do to USSR if red army will continue to push across Europe to concur all other countries left there.As the US got closer to enemy shores, the Kamikazes intensified. It was at that point that the president decided that the loss of life would be too enormous to attempt a landing on the shores of Japan. To break Japans ability to sustain war, the US took extreme action. Which brings us full circle to our main topic. China gathering intel and info on US military installations.
Oh it has been out for years, you plug it into your car and they can see how often you drive, at what speeds, how you accelerate and brake etc. The GPS also tracks where you have been to and how long you stay there. It is for them to really see what type of driving you do so they know what risk you are to them. Surely they must offer this device in Canada. They also tout it as a teen driver monitor system for parents.
other times Ya KNOW.....The allegations could not be independently confirmed but you wonder!
Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Officials Say