The FCC just gave itself the power to make a DJI drone ban stick

This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to fto itself retroactively prohibition gadgets and vigor components that it antecedently approved for introduction into the United States, if the institution that makes them is deemed a nationalist information risk.

Officially, it's a mode to adjacent loopholes and protect US networks from backdoors successful Chinese telecom gear. But it could besides springiness the Trump medication a caller mode to artifact Chinese user electronics that tally connected the unfastened airwaves, starting with those from dronemaker DJI, adjacent though the US authorities hasn't publically released grounds that they airs a threat.

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