{"id":3250,"date":"2026-07-21T02:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-fcc-is-planning-to-retroactively-ban-disguised-dji-gadgets\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:16:14","slug":"the-fcc-is-planning-to-retroactively-ban-disguised-dji-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-fcc-is-planning-to-retroactively-ban-disguised-dji-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two drones, one yellow, one grey, almost identical otherwise.\" data-caption='The Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sV7VyzTqNXs\"&gt;AirPhotography&lt;\/a&gt;' data-portal-copyright='Image: &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sV7VyzTqNXs\"&gt;AirPhotography&lt;\/a&gt;' data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/skyrover-versus-air-photography.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sV7VyzTqNXs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AirPhotography<\/a>\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/808104\/fcc-order-retroactive-ban-transmitter-national-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the power to <em>retroactively<\/em> ban gadgets<\/a> that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC&rsquo;s getting ready to wield that power for the first time, by cracking down on the \u00ab\u00a0DJI front companies\u00a0\u00bb suspected of sneaking the Chinese company&rsquo;s tech past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/849460\/fcc-foreign-drone-ban-dji-congress-deadline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its foreign drone ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Fridays ago, the FCC had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/964342\/fcc-crack-down-dji-front-companies-xtra-skyrover-sgs-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already proposed a $25,000 fine<\/a> on eight of those \u00ab\u00a0front companies,\u00a0\u00bb including the ones behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/714103\/dji-skyrover-x1-evade-ban-amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Skyrover drones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/795016\/xtra-muse-dji-osmo-pocket-3-us-customs-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xtra cameras<\/a>. But now, the FCC is proposing a lot more than a slap-on-the-wrist &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-proposes-prohibit-import-marketing-covered-equipment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&rsquo;s planning to ban those same companies<\/a> from \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/968310\/fcc-dji-drone-camera-ban-skyrover-xtra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: AirPhotography Last October, we told you how the FCC [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}