By Claris Diaz
While Washington fixates on TikTok’s potential to share personal data with Chinese intelligence for disinformation and hybrid warfare, a far more dangerous data-collecting technology is quite literally flying under the radar: Chinese-made agricultural drones. The threat that they pose to national security can be more devastating than any data scrubbed from social media platforms. These non-military drones, which are now embedded in global markets, go beyond tracking personal data — they collect highly specific agricultural data that could be weaponized to gain unprecedented leverage over critical food production, resources, and supplies. In response to growing levels of food insecurity driven
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Source: Beyond TikTok — The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones
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