China Has a Drone Army to Stop Wildfires. Where’s America’s?

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China Has a Drone Army to Stop Wildfires. Where’s America’s?
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A fleet of flying robots are becoming a go-to tool for fighting climate-related disasters in China. But America is lagging behind—badly.

, including the makers of the drones used to fight back Chongqing's wildfires. . That’s led to a bipartisan consensus to root DJI drones out of federal fleets—and to approach other Chinese-made drones with caution. “The security risk has pretty much been assessed,” Alexandra Seymour, a technology and national security expert at the Center for a New American Security, told The Daily Beast. “We need to make sure that we’re protecting our data and not creating a vulnerability.

“With additional safety barriers in place, for these really low-risk, non-national security missions, I still think there’s very little risk of using DJI drones,” he said.The security risk has pretty much been assessed. We need to make sure that we’re protecting our data and not creating a vulnerability.But experts worry about any data making its way back to China, even from local-level firefighting bureaus.

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