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GPS jammers are for people who don't want to be tracked by someone else. Commercial vehicles are often tracked by GPS so the company knows where their vehicles are at

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Old 12-17-2009, 02:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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GPS jammers are for people who don't want to be tracked by someone else. Commercial vehicles are often tracked by GPS so the company knows where their vehicles are at any given time. Not all employees cooperate with the corporate surveilance. Some rental car companies charge big extra fees if the vehicle is taken out of state. I remember being warned about extra charges if the vehicle was taken out of state when I rented a car in Las Vegas.
For a GPS jammer to be legal it would have to operate under the FCC rules for radio transmitters. Even if these jammers are Part 15 devices(less than 100mw) I doubt transmitting on GPS frequencies is legal.
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GPS jammers are for people who don't want to be tracked by someone else. Commercial vehicles are often tracked by GPS so the company knows where their vehicles are at any given time. Not all employees cooperate with the corporate surveilance. Some rental car companies charge big extra fees if the vehicle is taken out of state. I remember being warned about extra charges if the vehicle was taken out of state when I rented a car in Las Vegas.
For a GPS jammer to be legal it would have to operate under the FCC rules for radio transmitters. Even if these jammers are Part 15 devices(less than 100mw) I doubt transmitting on GPS frequencies is legal.
Not only is it illegal, it is a Federal offense, I imagine. Never eff with the Feds unless you enjoy living at their expense in a nice clean cell.
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Not only is it illegal, it is a Federal offense, I imagine. Never eff with the Feds unless you enjoy living at their expense in a nice clean cell.
You are correct. In fact, I believe that any GPS jammer, no matter what its signal strength is, is illegal.
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lol they will track you carbon footprint to help combat clobal warming... even though it snowing at teh global climate change summit... what a joke... just like the lady that was driving a hybrid gmc on campus here at WVU with a sticker that said suv's are evil on the back glass... i guess hybrid suv's arent suvs at all?
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Yea... I'm pretty sure someone stealing a car with GPS tracking (not LoJack but pretty much every one of their competators) doesn't really care about Federal law.... the whole point of this exercise is to point out how easily a lot of security systems can be breached.
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