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FCC Wants to Track Wireless

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:08 pm
by xoom
"According to an article on ZDNet, the FCC wants the ability to track Wi-fi accessible phones like the ZyXel phone. The FCC's June report talked about several ways of realizing a caller's location: 'creating an "inventory" of every Wi-Fi access point in the United States, engaging in "mapping and triangulation" of those access points, compiling an "access jack inventory" for wired VoIP users, or even mandating that Net phones include GPS.'"

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5833 ... d.newsfeed

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a ... -116A1.pdf

Re: FCC Wants to Track Wireless

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:07 pm
by Dutch
"According to an article on ZDNet, the FCC wants the ability to track Wi-fi accessible phones like the ZyXel phone. The FCC's June report talked about several ways of realizing a caller's location: 'creating an "inventory" of every Wi-Fi access point in the United States, engaging in "mapping and triangulation" of those access points, compiling an "access jack inventory" for wired VoIP users, or even mandating that Net phones include GPS.'"

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5833 ... d.newsfeed

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a ... -116A1.pdf
Quick... Move WiGLE offshore. Washington are going to nationalize you... :wink:

Dutch