All android phone are definitely sending data to United States. Why is sending data to one country better than sending data to another?<p>For US citizens, this might be irrelevant (not so much if we go by the leaks). But for everyone living anywhere else on the globe, owning a smartphone means usually owning an endpoint for one of the giant corporate data sinks which its government can easily access.<p>I understand that it is the price I have to pay for a free (sic) OS and play services. But I use it because of a lack of viable libre and open alternative.<p>And I have about as much choice as someone in the market for a decent quadcopter unwilling to send data to China.
The response to this issue, which was mostly news from August but is coming up again today due to the new probe, was that DJI decided to add an "offline" mode.<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/dji-adds-an-offline-mode-to-its-drones-for-clients-with-sensitive-operations/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/dji-adds-an-offline-mode-t...</a>
Relevant link from recently <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/dji-left-private-keys-for-ssl-cloud-storage-in-public-view-and-exposed-customers/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/dji-l...</a>
For every $1,000 drone bought from DJI, the military isn't buying a $10k+ drone from Raytheon or Lockheed-Martin. I'm sure that factors into this somehow ..