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  "path": "/dji-drone-ban-audit",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T15:48:56.000Z",
  "site": "https://nofilmschool.com",
  "tags": [
    "Dji",
    "Dji drone news",
    "Dji news",
    "​dji drone ban",
    "DJI drone ban saga",
    "and even other non-drone products",
    "3,000 public comments",
    "executive summary",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIn the latest chapter in the ongoing DJI drone ban saga, we have new updates on what’s been done to fight the FCC’s decision to add the Chinese-based company to a “covered list,” which has effectively shut the company out of releasing new drones (and even other non-drone products) in the United States.\n\nDJI has shared a record of its petition to the FCC, which has garnered over 3,000 public comments in support of removing the company’s drones from this restricted list. It has also gone a step further and commissioned an independent assessment staffed by former military and government security professionals, which, as it reports, finds no security basis for restrictions.\n\nIf this has been a case that you’ve been following, here are the latest updates that you need to know.\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n### DJI Continues Fight Against Drone Ban\n\n\n\n\nFirst, let’s look at the petition which DJI filed in response to the FCC’s ruling. Receiving over 3,000 public comments (roughly ten times the volume seen in comparable past FCC proceedings), the company cites that most of the outcry has come from farmers, fire departments, search-and-rescue teams, and small businesses whose access to critical technology is being cut off.\n\nThe company goes on to argue that no government agency has completed the national security review mandated under the NDAA process before DJI was placed on the FCC Covered List.\n\nTime and time again in its defense, DJI has claimed that this drone ban has come despite no publicly identified security concerns.\n\n### A DJI Commissioned Independent Audit\n\n\n\n\nTo take its fight a step further, DJI has also commissioned an independent assessment from a US firm called OnDefend, staffed by many former military and government security professionals, which has put together a full report.\n\nTo sum it up, though, the report is one of the most comprehensive audits ever conducted on DJI drones and, according to DJI, has findings which “directly challenge the security rationale behind the FCC’s Covered List designation, which risks disrupting public safety operations, critical industries, and thousands of small businesses.\n\nIf this is a story you’re interested in following more thoroughly, you can read the full report as part of an executive summary or press release.",
  "title": "A DJI Commissioned Independent Audit Finds “No Security Basis” for Its Effective Drone Ban in the US"
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