People Use GPS 'Jammers' to Stop Tracking of Their Cars

Wow, thanks for the kind words!! 👍

We need laws that require us to opt in not opt out. And force social media to pay the individual person for any data they created for the social media companies before the companies can resell the data.

When the government says you have no right to privacy, you then have a duty to disobey.

Many years ago, when I was moving from North Dakota to Oregon, I got stopped at a DUI checkpoint in Idaho. Although I wasn't drinking, the county cop saw my Bearcat scanner and my radar detector, and said "Those are illegal here." I think he was pretty surprised when I pulled up my FCC "Professional Radiotelephone License" (having anticipated such a possibility), and responded: "Not for me; this Federal license says that I can operate any radio transmitter or receiver, anywhere in the U.S!"

Data is now the most valuable commodity in our society. I think people are starting to get tired of being tracked everywhere they go for anything they do. It's not enough for these companies to gather all this data on you, they always end up selling it to the highest bidder.

Tracking should be prosecuted under wiretapping laws unless properly disclosed and opted into. It should also be rolled into identity theft if sold as apart of data harvesting, and blanketed under unauthorized access to a computer system.

GPS Jammers are not a growing problem, they are a growing awesome-ness

This wouldn't be a problem if companies weren't stalking people harder than an ACTUAL STALKER ever could.

to hell with opting out. the companies should have to persuade you into opting in of your own free will, in a manner that makes you aware of what your opting into.

In reference to Steve's quote from The Finnish governmental official, anyone who describes actions taken by private citizens seeking greater privacy as "problematic", is part of the problem.

"Isn't it interesting that the only road to social Utopia, requires absolute surveillance of every aspect of your life." ~Jim Lakely VP, The Heartland Institute

In a country that has a legal system that states that an individual is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers its odd how many laws we have declaring that the possession of certain items is illegal due to the possibility of illicit use (police scanner, switch blade knife, high capacity magazine, suppressor, ect.) That in itself is stating that the person having said items has criminal intent. Making them guilty before a crime is committed based on a hypothetical reason. Guilty until proven innocent. Unless you have an eleven digit bank account. Then you can pretty much do whatever you want. Justice by the dollar. The more money you have,the more justice you get.

It's almost as if people don't like being tracked. Who would ever have thought.

I agree with all your points on the law that needs to be written with the exception of IT NEEDS TO BE OPT-IN! Not opt-out.

The government will Never give you the option of not being tracked because they are the ones paying for it.

In the EU cars are now required to have a SIM with a GPS system that can send your position "if you crash" or find yourself in an "emergency". Everything closed source of course, and that data has to reach the governments emergency coodination center. States want to control everything, and that's one of the reasons they don't want old cars on the road. The EU created that mandate, and some countries outside the EU did the same afterwards

As a cab driver about 10 years ago, i found that i could improve my cab computer response time in getting "first come first served" offered trips if my cars gps was not working. I watched the mechanic replace the module under a small plastic bubble on the cars roof. 2 screws held the cover on. Knowing there was a huge advantage to a non working gps, i went home unscrewed the cover and proceded to fill the void in the gps bubble with aluminum foil. The foil blocked the signal and i was back to super computer speed. Ran that way for 8 months. Boss found out, suspended me for 12 hours and told me not to tamper with the car. Lol that suspension was so worth the 8 months of being able to snag trips faster than anyone else...

The thing about opting out of something is that the company can secretly ignore your wishes and still sell your info. As someone who worked for a company that did so I can confirm that it does happen.

If your company car has a tracker never disable/remove it, only obscure the signal. Its a big red flag when it completely drops off. That being said be aware most vehicles now have 2 different spots they send and receive from. One is usually the "shark fin/puck" on top. The other is usually a backup 3g/4g located inside the dash.

Even cheaper and easier. I found out by mail from dealer I was being tracked. I grabbed my 18V DeWalt recip saw and removed the little black antennae off the top front left corner of my van. Fixed.