According to Axios, the Secret Service and FBI recently bought the drones from DJI, a Shenzhen-based company. The Secret Service’s purchase of eight drones and the FBI’s purchase of 19 drones came just days after the Department of Defense warned DJI products “pose potential threats to national security.”
While the [DJI] products are used for personal and commercial purposes, they also require the user to download proprietary DJI software, and to fly using mapping databases that have the potential to be monitored remotely.