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Finland detects more GPS jammers as drivers increasingly try to hide their tracks | Yle News | Yle (yle.fi)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (23 children)

You know what feels wrong? You can easily buy GPS tracking devices on Amazon, but it is illegal to use a GPS jammer in USA, Canada and many other countries.

So companies spying you is fine, but blocking a GPS signal to prevent them from spying can get you a $16,000 fine.

Edit: my thought experiment is not about truck drivers being monitored but more about those fancy new EVs that sell your GPS based data to data brokers... You usually can't turn off the GPS in those EVs.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Active jamming is illegal but passive is not. You can block yourself but not others. FYI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tape some foil over the GPS antenna.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yes ,but it could also be that there are multiple gps antenna in your new car.😬

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