DJI Still Excluded as FCC Grants Conditional Approval to Several Foreign Drone Models - No Film School

This was the week DJI fought back with evidence. An independent US cybersecurity firm bought DJI gear off the shelf, tested it for five months, and found nothing; the FCC comment docket crossed 3,000; and the FAA turned 11 World Cup stadiums into no-drone zones with FBI seizure authority. Five stories — in priority order, with our take on each.

DJI is still locked out. The FCC granted conditional drone approval to several foreign competitors — SiFly, Verge, Mobilicom — but not a single DJI model. And even those approvals expire at year's end.