Germany's biggest electronics retailer removes DJI drones from its shelves (and online store) over "security concerns"

Fast forward to the present day and Germany's largest electronics retailer, MediaMarkt, has now pulled all DJI drones from its website and shelves in Germany and the Netherlands as a result of what Pandaily calls "Security Concerns". Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov sends a letter to DJI founder and CEO Frank Wang over his concerns about the use of DJI products in Ukraine by the Russian army and asking DJI to cease doing any business in Russia. German electronics retailer MediaMarkt responds to a tweet asking them to stop selling DJI products. DJI's accusers say that DJI has the ability to turn off the AeroScope tracking for drones within Ukraine and DJI says they don't - which seems patently untrue, as DJI could push a firmware update any time they liked to disable that feature, which Ukrainians would then be free to install at their convenience making their drones untrackable - to anybody. DJI also states that they cannot obtain user information from the flight data and that no identifiable data about the drone or its users is sent to DJI, yet multiple reports over the last several years highlight data leaks from DJI drones and the DJI app that reportedly have been monitored sending large amounts of data back to Chinese services. In recent years, DJI has faced a number of challenges and security concerns with the US Army banning DJI drone usage over what it called "Cyber vulnerabilities" - although the timing around the initial release of AeroScope is convenient - and not too long after, DJI was accused of spying on the USA for the Chinese government. I've seen a number of people on my social media feed over the last couple of weeks trying to offload their DJI drones in favour of switching to another brand.