Patent infringement? Sounds like they needed to get this shit out of the US quickly!

I have a DJI Phantom 4, and I have since day one questioned why these were even allowed in the US. The reason I questioned it, is all your data is being tracked and controlled by DJI in the Bay Area. All video is streamed to their servers, even when you check the box not to transmit data.

I called them back in the day and complained about forced restrictions in the Sierra and how they knew where I was flying and where I was headed.
Everyone I spoke to was Chinese, even got into an argument over our Constitution, I could see from the response, this concept of freedom and Liberty was completely foreign to these people.

I then decided to go higher up and got the email to the CEO, through a translator, I expressed my disdain for these flying restrictions of "One Size Fits All", he too could not grasp what I was trying to say.
The only thing that did translate well was the final exchange of Fuck You, and he returned the greeting as well.

Chinese-Made DJI Mavic Drones May Be Taken off US Market Over Patent Infringement

International Trade Commission (ITC) found the devices infringe on a patent held by an American firm.

"If the chief administrative law judge's determination is upheld by the full commission, these products could be taken off the U.S. market as early as July," Autel's law firm said in a statement.

Autel has also filed a petition to extend the import ban to other DJI devices, including the Phantom 4 and Inspire series drones.

The U.S. Army appears to have used DJI devices at least until August 2017, when the drones were banned "due to increased awareness of cyber vulnerabilities associated with DJI products," according to a notice obtained by sUAS News. At the time, DJI drones were the most widely used off-the-shelf unmanned aerial device in the Army, the notice stated.

The Homeland Security Investigations office in Los Angeles went a step further in an unclassified bulletin (pdf) issued last year, stating "with high confidence" that "critical infrastructure and law enforcement entities using DJI systems are collecting sensitive intelligence that the Chinese government could use to conduct physical or cyber attacks against the United States and its population."

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