DJI responds publicly to its US blacklisting

[Redaktion]

The drone-maker DJI is one of the latest companies to be placed on the US Administration's Entity List. The OEM has reacted with a bemused message posted to its official Twitter account, in which it denies doing anything to warrant this action, and to do all it can to limit its effect on its customers, suppliers and other business partners.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/DJI-responds-publicly-to-its-US-blacklisting.512067.0.html

[ZODD]

Good, any company that does this

" The security analyst groups GRIMM and Synaktiv have released reports with findings that one of its Android apps that connect its products to an owner's smartphone contains an SDK "which collects the user's private information and transmits it to MobTech, a Chinese analytics company".

Furthermore, the app in question has also been linked to "command-and-control"-esque behaviors (like those of some malware) so as to force updates. It may also collect sensitive information such as a user's phone's IMSI and IMEI numbers, which can then be sent (albeit not necessarily are sent) on to malicious or adversarial parties."

[Concerned Citizen]

@ZODD
I hope you support similar sanctions against Google, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, and Microsoft.  All of these companies do all of this and much more.

[Anonym]

@ZODD
I hope you support similar sanctions against Google, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, and Microsoft.  All of these companies do all of this and much more.

Most of them still can't do business inside China, and the ones that do are either a recent thing or had to significantly bow to local demands. That's the whole point dude: Chinese companies get to sell wherever they want, but the moment anyone gives them the same treatment as international companies in China chills like you cry "it's unfair" despite this being how China treats everyone else for decades.

[Gus]

"one of its Android apps that connect its products to an owner's smartphone contains an SDK "which collects the user's private information and transmits it to MobTech, a Chinese analytics company"

Dji response: We did nothing.


Lol.

[S.Yu]

@ZODD
I hope you support similar sanctions against Google, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, and Microsoft.  All of these companies do all of this and much more.

The ban is also linked to DJI hardware being used for civilian surveillance in Xinjiang.

@ZODD
I hope you support similar sanctions against Google, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Apple, and Microsoft.  All of these companies do all of this and much more.

Most of them still can't do business inside China, and the ones that do are either a recent thing or had to significantly bow to local demands. That's the whole point dude: Chinese companies get to sell wherever they want, but the moment anyone gives them the same treatment as international companies in China chills like you cry "it's unfair" despite this being how China treats everyone else for decades.

Exactly. The Party likes to play the victim despite having screwed everybody else ten times over in the past couple decades.

[vertigo]

Yup, China plays by certain rules but then wants to use another set of rules when it suits them. And yes, Google/Facebook/MS/Apple/etc absolutely should be penalized for doing similar things, and to a certain extent they are, though obviously not enough. Hopefully the current lawsuits will change that, but it'll likely be years before any significant changes happen.