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Drones at centre of US-China battle on data harvesting

US officials fear that Chinese drone maker DJI could turn out to be a ‘Huawei with wings’ in a global battle for control of personal data.

Bruce Einhorn and Todd Shields
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In video reviews of the latest drone models to his 80,000 YouTube subscribers, Indiana college student Carson Miller doesn’t seem like an unwitting tool of Chinese spies.

Yet that’s how the US is increasingly viewing him and thousands of other Americans who purchase drones built by Shenzhen-based SZ DJI Technology, the world’s top producer of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/drones-at-centre-of-us-china-battle-on-data-harvesting-20211220-p59izn