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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Russia May Ban GPS

Use of the system is not currently banned. Though it was until Dec 2006 for security reasons. But the law was ignored, so it was dropped. (Moscow Times)

Two years later, the officials are reconsidering:

However, during recent meeting on space industry, government representatives said that they planned to ban GPS navigation system from being used on municipal and public means of transportation.

The “why” of the proposed ban was not addressed in any coverage I found.

- Russia IC

by Adena Schutzberg on 10/21 at 08:44 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
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