Out of curiosity, do you know exactly what data is being recorded within the flight system? Do you ever connect your aircraft or controller to your computer and DJI’s assistant? Do you perform firmware updates online or download them to computer and upload via the assistant? Do you know, precisely, what data is transferred between the assistant and the aircraft? Is there a bidirectional data exchange? How much data is transferred from the aircraft to the computer/assistant? Might the assistant perform an auto data dump the next time the computer connects to the web? If you don’t have a definitive answer to any of those questions your data is not secure, nor is the data you collected for your customers. China steals U.S. IP, private, public, military, government, to the tune of ~600 billion $ a year. Every company in China is required by their law to share any and all data with their intelligence services, and to collect specialized data as ordered where possible. It’s their law and to break the law in China is many ways painful for those that disobey.
Just sayin’ there’s lots of ways to move data you won’t be aware of. Surveillance packages are not made from single source data collection, and rarely, if ever, from a one time pass over. I know this because I did it for a living.
Aerial surveillance uses many, many passes and angles to develop info to see change. The process is often persistent over time, using data from multiple sources to build a package. Hundreds or thousands of data sets can be, and often are, reviewed to capture a tiny piece from each one to build a complete picture. OpSec is a process that requires every stage of an operation do everything possible to prevent small bits of info from leaking out from which substantive intel can be developed from.
People like to argue that any land view they want can be obtained from Google Earth. Those making that argument demonstrate how little they know about Google Earth imagery and are unaware much of that imagery was altered before publication because of government pressure. If you want accurate, up to date imagery there’s no better way to get it than from people doing photographic flyovers willing to give it away, knowingly or not.
Simply put, where data security is concerned American people are incredibly stupid and unwittingly give away everything they have to anyone that wants to take it. Even more incredible is they trust the people they do business with, thinking those businesses are their to help them.
A multirotor with a photographic, signal collection, or chemical/gas survey payload is a data collection device. Where the data goes after collection is often questionable.
