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U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation is calling on the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Chinese drone maker DJI because the data it collects could fall into the hands of the Chinese regime.

On August 19, a report was published indicating the data collected by Chinese drones flown in the country would include precise location of critical infrastructure and sensitive information, including locations of civic leaders, their movements, and interactions.

Report co-author Lora Ries, a senior research fellow at the think tank, told The Epoch Times: “Due to Chinese laws, Chinese corporations are unable to deny data requests from the Chinese government. Given the data that is collected, the risk is that such information is going back to Beijing.”

The Heritage Foundation called on DJI to be placed on the “Entity List” due to security vulnerabilities in its products that harvest user data, as well as DJI’s involvement in the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The “Entity List” is a U.S. trade blacklist that bars American companies from doing business with them, unless they obtain special licenses.

Drones made by DJI, a private company headquartered in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and the world’s biggest maker of commercial drones, are extremely popular in the United States.

Many of these drones are used by U.S. government agencies. In August 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a warning in an unclassified bulletin, saying that DJI was “providing U.S. critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.” In May 2019, DHS issued a similar warning again.

In July, the Paris-based IT security firm Synacktiv issued a report in which the app was found to collect a vast amount of personal user data, including the serial number of the phone’s SIM card, the phone’s identity number IMEI, and the phone’s IMSI, a unique number that telecoms companies use to identify a SIM.

The Washington-based cybersecurity company River Loop Security, reviewed another DJI app called DJI Mimo. DJI Mimo allows users to edit their photos and videos captured on cameras attached to DJI drones. In a report issued in May, River Loop found that the app sent data via insecure means to servers located in China, without user consent.

What’s more, River Loop found that the app’s terms of use agreement allowed DJI to share user data with the Chinese regime. When installed, the DJI Mimo app requests users to give access to much of the phone’s data, such as location, SMS messages, and WiFi state.

Referring to the two reports by Synacktiv and River Loop, the Heritage Foundation concluded: “Those findings should worry any company or government agency using DJI technology, as well as policymakers working to secure critical infrastructure.”

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