Following Huawei, DJI's Drone Giant Is Also On The Blacklist In The US

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JAKARTA - One more thing, products made by China are back on the blacklist, namely DJI in the United States (US). The drone company is a new victim in the trade war with the country.

Quoting The Verge, Saturday, December 19, this event followed Huawei and several other Chinese technology companies, which were also blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce.

This means that DJI is also considered a risk to US national security and US-based companies are prohibited from exporting their technology to DJI.

"They are committing large-scale human rights violations in China by conducting high-tech surveillance," said the US government.

It seems that this incident refers to DJI's involvement in providing drones for the Chinese government to monitor detention camps in Xinjiang province.

"DJI is disappointed with the US Department of Commerce's decision. (However) customers in the US can continue to buy and use DJI products as usual," DJI responded.

As a result of this ban, US companies will find it difficult to provide components for DJI to use on their drones. Stores in the US may also be stuck selling DJI products.

In fact, the US has been worried about DJI for a long time. In 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned US companies to guard against leaks of corporate data if they used commercial drones made in China.

According to DHS, these drones could have components that could steal corporate data and share personal information stored on their servers outside the company.

Although the name DJI was not directly mentioned. But this kind of warning was also issued by DHS in 2017, when they said they did not really trust DJI's drones and software, because they were considered to be able to leak important US infrastructure information and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.

However, DJI dismissed the accusation, saying that it did not show evidence that the company was guilty.

"At DJI, security is at the core of everything we do, and the security of our technology has been independently verified by the US government and big business in the US," said DJI spokesman Adam Lisberg.