Hello! I am a police officer in Youngstown, Ohio. Our mayor, Charles Sammarone, recently announced that soon all city cars will be equipped with GPS trackers and I think about it as the violation of my privacy rights. Can I do something to fight back?
Depending on their power, signal jammers can disrupt communications in an area of a few meters or several kilometers. Commercial jammers have been sold abroad for years, and some Internet publications even offer instructions on how to build homemade models. The Federal Communications Commission prohibits persons in the United States from constructing, selling, operating or importing radio jamming devices. People who violate this provision of a 70-year-old communications law face up to one year in prison and $ 11,000 in fines for each violation.
GPS tracking systems for cars are widely used across the USA. The opinions about their usage have divided into two camps. One group of people thinks that using GPS tracking devices is great and it helps a lot in their work and they don’t bothered by the fact that they are tracked all the time. Other group of people thinks that despite the usefulness of such technological innovation the privacy violation is too high and thus GPS tracking must be stopped.
As I can see you belong to the second group and sincerely willing to protect your privacy by all manner of means. So I have great news for you! You can prevent GPS tracking in your Youngstown city car and save all your privacy rights in that way.
Some jammers may have to be as smart as mobile phones, which try to increase power or jump to other radio channels to avoid interference.