DJI launching an app to allow ANYONE to view your flight info

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All your personal details are out there everywhere people can pay to companies to get your details and when people contact you out the blue where did they get your details how would you find out and what could you do about it everyone we use the internet and agree to cockies they got you and learn more about you all the time

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Which is highly illegal without your consent and the penalties are hefty, could easily put a company out of business.

I take privacy pretty seriously, not on social media, not on edited electoral register, TPS registered, always opt out of post and phone communication.

I never get unsolicited calls or post so privacy laws in EU seem to be working.

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Simple, when you answer the phone you just ask “Where did you get my phone number from?”
I will guarantee they will hang up !.

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Just skim read through this thread but looking at the DJI Fly app, under the remote identification section you can just disable both ‘UUID’ option and the ‘Identification and Flight Information’ option, would this not secure privacy or is this new phone app pulling drone broadcasted telemetry and location data regardless?

Ps, as I understand it you need to switch these options off for every flight as they default to on each time you turn on the drone or start the app.

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Probably only a matter of time before you CANNOT turn it off…:thinking::thinking:

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Theres a little more to the reasons why DJI want to give access to pilot locations to all and sundry but if one such reason is to allay any fears of Joe Public about why we might be flying …errrr…peeping at them with our drones because it has a camera…why wouldnt Apple (for example) release an app so we might see where all the iPhone ‘operators’ are located incase theres someone snapping away near me? . I fear for me children and wouldnt like to think theres anyone in my street or vicinity loitering for too long.

I know why not…its because its an utter BS move.

DJI allowing access to their customer db via an app with my location on it is hellishly stupid. Give it to the authorities if needed but dont go and scrawl on a toilet wall fgs.

DJI trying too hard to come across all transparent and nicey nicey. Do one peoples!!:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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They normally always do but they still got your number in the first place, how would the police help you, they would not nobody has the time to try and find these people, companies etc just like DJI sharing your information with their partners etc then they share with theirs and so on

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In such cases you can report the offenders to OFCOM. OFCOM are the regulators and I believe they still have a page you can enter the details for a report.

Nidge

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Exactly, press are trying to turn drone fliers I to public enemy no 1, just because of some non proven drone flights near airports. Hence, trying to give the public more chance to check what we are doing and find / report us

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How do you report them the number they use is not traceable to them and when you ask for more details they hang up

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Is this another reason to use LITCHI and avoid DJI software completely ? :thinking:
Cheers
Steve :slightly_smiling_face:

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It’s the drone itself that will be broadcasting so app used wont make any difference.

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But surely a Mavic PRO hasn’t the ability to transmit directly?
I thought the data was put onto the web by drone → controller → mobile device using mobile data :thinking: and Joe Publics app got data from web
Tell me if I’m wrong (often am these days :slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face:)
Steve

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It’s all in the firmware

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It does indeed mate, and has been doing so for over two years now.

It’s all detailed here - Anatomy of DJI Drone ID Implementation (re: AeroScope)

Which means anyone with a laptop and some know-how can read your data now, and in the future anyone with the DJI phone app can read it too :confused:

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Which casts a different light on Gatwick altogether

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That’s if it was a dji drone?

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The data is not put onto web.

Its broadcast by the drone through radio signal (wifi) and can be picked up by anyone in range.

Aeroscope has large antenna so can detect your drone at long range.

A mobile phone relies on tiny wifi antenna so the range will be much lower and they would need to be in the immediate vicinity of the drone.

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DJI are quoting up to 1km range for WiFi Aware on their new app.

Granted that’s probably in lab conditions, but it’s a safe bet that if you can see the drone you’ll be able to receive the data from it.

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