US government grounds drone fleet (no, not the military ones with Hellfire missiles) over Chinese espionage fears

The US government has indefinitely grounded its fleet of roughly 800 drones over ill-defined fears of Chinese espionage. On Wednesday, Secretary of the Interior David Berhardt signed a “Temporary Cessation of Non-Emergency Unmanned Aircraft Systems Fleet Operations” order [PDF] that will pull his department’s fleet of drones out of the sky until new rules are developed.

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