We Have Not Escaped the DJI Drone Ban! Tuesday March 4, 2025 @ 11:59 pm is the Last Time You Can Protest this Ban!

[DroneSolutions]

"Banning Chinese Drones Will Not Prevent American Made Drones From Spying!
As long as American made drones have cameras and a ½” SD (Memory Card) to store
photos and videos, the ‘potential’ of spying on critical infrastructure will always exist.
Drones don’t spy…people spy using a drone regardless of where they are manufactured. You
would have to ban ALL drones to prevent foreign nationals and American profiteers from
using camera drones to spy." (My nine point argument against banning DJI Drones is attached)

You have until 11:59 pm this Tuesday March 4, 2025 to go Regulations.Gov and click on 'COMMENT' to express your opinion and hopefully stop the ban. You can click on 'DOCUMENT COMMENTS' to see what 450 other DJI/AUTEL drone owners have said why Chinese drones shouldn't be banned. Use your own words. They will ignore duplicates!

I'm sorry for for this late information. I've had a difficult surgery with a long recovery. You may think this a dead issue because we all won the battles to keep the banning of DJI drones out of legislation.

This an end run. This is NOT legislation! This is a Commision that will decide the fate of our DJI/Autel drones. Time is short. It will take you 2-5 minutes to make your voice heard! Only 450 people have commented...it is not enough! Please act!

FAA Part 107 Certified Remote Pilot...Continuous Lift LLC

 

[msinger]

Banning Chinese Drones Will Not Prevent American Made Drones From Spying!

If you've read the proposed rule, you'll notice it makes no mention of trying to prevent Americans from spying. As a result, comments like this will likely be tossed aside.

Here's a summary of the proposed rule:

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is seeking public comments on potential regulations concerning unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that involve information and communications technology and services (ICTS) supplied by foreign adversaries. This request is issued under Executive Order (E.O.) 13873, which aims to secure the ICTS supply chain from national security threats.

Key Points:

• Purpose: BIS is evaluating the risks posed by UAS-related ICTS linked to foreign adversaries (e.g., China, Russia) and considering regulatory actions to mitigate potential threats to U.S. national security, ICTS supply chains, and critical infrastructure.
  
  
• Public Input Requested On:
  • Defining UAS for regulatory purposes.
  • Identifying foreign adversary-linked ICTS in UAS that pose security risks.
  • Assessing economic and competitive impacts of potential regulations.
  • Evaluating data collection, storage, and transmission vulnerabilities.
  • Exploring risk mitigation measures or possible exceptions to regulations.
    
    
• Security Concerns: BIS highlights risks including data exfiltration, remote access vulnerabilities, and foreign government control over UAS technologies.
  
  
• Potential Regulatory Actions: Restrictions on UAS components, prohibitions on foreign adversary ICTS, mitigation measures, and new certification requirements.
  
  
• Deadline for Comments: March 4, 2025 (via regulations.gov, email, or other specified methods).

BIS encourages industry stakeholders, experts, and the public to provide feedback on these issues to help shape potential future regulations.

 

[Cafguy]

The FAA has integrated drones into the National Airspace with Drone Remote Identification. All drones over 8.8 oz manufactured anywhere in the world after December 16, 2022, broadcast their digital license plate the
moment they are turned on indicating their location, altitude, speed, time stamp, and owner’s identification all of which can be displayed on phone or tablet app.
From short distances this is true. YET FAA officials do not posses these apps and as far as I know there is NO government contract to purchase them. RID cannot be read from the airports control tower and is really no better than an FAA official simply witnessing you Flying in person.

Police, the FAA, or any citizen can use a free phone app called ‘Drone Scanner’ by Dronetag that can detect and display on a map the drone’s Remote ID broadcast along with its Latitude &. Longitude, User ID, Drone Serial Number, Distance, Altitude, and Speed for law enforcement purposes and detection around critical infrastructure.

Sure any citizen can But for a Person to do it in their duties as a public official isnt so easy. If you were to be arrested in such a way your attorney would immediately want to know how reliable these apps are and would want the results of any studies that were made on them before they were adopted as a Law enforcement tool. Therefor NO Official would use these apps "officially"

It is un-American to make DJI prove they are NOT using their drones owned by Americans to capture and spy on American infrastructure. How do you prove a negative? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? If the
US alleges that DJI is spying and sharing this data with the Chinese government, then let them prove it!

We all know these Drones Don't spy on anything ( and so does the Gov.) BUT Certain people with hills of Money and lots of influence Want to build and sell Drones too....and the only way to compete in pricing is scare us "sheep" into Regulating Chinese Products and paying more for American Drones.
I Hope they read and take your letter into consideration BUT I fear you are screaming at a wall.........A very money hungry wall.
As Drones become more and more what we all don't want them to become, Regulations on their use and even ownership will become more and more untenable and we will unfortunately see a lot of businesses like yours go under in the near future because of this.
I wish you success in weathering this storm!