Its way past time for this but good to see. The red flag for me is "potential issues", which means to me "we couldn't really find anything but they might use them for nefarious purposes". If they end up releasing it, it will be interesting to see what it says.
In the letter, Representative Rodgers did not make the claim about facial recognition. She was asking to have some information declassified.'Further, the bulletin warned that DJI-established applications, when used with their UAS hardware, collect GPS locations and photographs taken by the device, register facial recognition data even when the system is off, and upload information to cloud storage located in Taiwan and Hong Kong, to which our foremost adversary, the Chinese Communist Party, almost certainly has access.'
The Congress members here are quoting a 2017 'alert' written by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) —the investigative component of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.In the letter, Representative Rodgers did not make the claim about facial recognition. She was asking to have some information declassified.
The facial recognition claims were from a 2017 document, https://info.publicintelligence.net/ICE-DJI-China.pdf, that was in the footnotes for this document. The facial recognition was on Android for the DJI Go and Sky Pixels apps. The author of that document probably confused Android's biometric authentication with features they incorrectly assumed were part of the apps.
Rodgers also lumped Autel Robotics in with DJI. If the DJI sanctions go into law, Autel will be next in the crosshairs.
You guys are losing it; keep it together! (This includes me)
I know there's a lot of pressure but don't forget....YOU loved Congress when they were creating these ridiculous drone laws in the name of safety, have you forgotten?
You can't become all indignant when they start coming after you after you've looked away while they were going after everyone else.
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