The Trump administration wants to bolster America’s GPS security to prevent foreign actors from threatening our national infrastructure. It should be no surprise that these moves have drawn the ire of China, and its interests are trying to subvert the administration’s efforts.
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by radar jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday.
The Trump administration is seeking to prevent China and other bad actors from crippling American infrastructure by undermining GPS systems. Despite the importance of this goal, a trade group run by Trump haters and a host of Chinese companies are trying to defeat these reforms.
In a recent blog post, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr outlined plans to vote on several proposals aimed at improving the reliability and accuracy of critical technologies, including GPS and 911 emergency services.
Just how fragile is the modern world? More than most years, 2024 has seen a surge of headlines about the things that make civilisation work.
Western allies should hurry up and hand over the “damn” missiles Ukraine demands, their foreign secretary says.
Jet carrying defence minister from NATO exercise subjected to signal jamming, leaving GPS system and cell phones onboard non-operational.
The government of Nepal is requiring everyone who climbs Mount Everest to carry a tracking chip for safety and verification.
Aircraft flying over Poland and the Baltic once again reported major discrepancies in their GPS signals this week.
Three sailors were rescued after the inflatable catamaran they were trying to navigate from Vanuatu to Australia was attacked by sharks.
Oregon asks that electric vehicle drivers volunteer — and Utah has mandated — for trackers to be added to every electric vehicle so they can be taxed by the mile. Michigan is next.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seemingly struggling to launch a taxpayer-funded program to release “non-dangerous, low flight risk” border crossers into the United States interior without any GPS monitoring.
Even as the British government considers alternatives to the fragile GPS systems that power everything from smartphones to warships, the British authority which is responsible for mapping the oceans is set to dispense with traditional paper charts, pushing ship’s navigators worldwide to digital instead – a move a leading naval expert has called shortsighted.
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday evening played the trailer of the forthcoming explosive documentary “2000 Mules” which reveals a widescale ballot trafficking network of ballot harvesters across several swing states.
Military and civilian satellites destroyed by enemy forces will be replaced next day, rather than months later, under the plan
Britain’s grotesquely overpaid, inexcusably unproductive GPs have a message for the nation: “Here is our collective middle finger. Sit on it and swivel!”
Ugandan’s government recently announced plans to install GPS tracking systems on all “vehicles, motorcycles, and vessels” in the country, Quartz Africa reported Friday.
President Joe Biden’s administration ought to release all border crossers into the United States without monitoring their whereabouts, open borders activists urge.
Google’s Maps app will soon begin directing drivers along routes calculated to generate the lowest amount of carbon emissions based on traffic, road grade, and other factors. Unless users opt-out of the program, the Masters of the Universe will suggest the most “eco-friendly” route instead of the fastest.
The British government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has suggested using GPS tracking to surveil travellers who are quarantining upon arriving in the United Kingdom.
Chairman of the Commons Health Committee Jeremy Hunt has said the government should consider using GPS to track Britons ordered to self-isolate by the NHS’s Test and Trace system.
Nearly half of Britons are in favour of surveillance on people’s phones to enforce lockdown measures during a pandemic, a poll has found.
The United Kingdom is set to release an app that would track the movements and contacts of those infected with coronavirus, raising concerns that it could jeopardise citizens’ privacy and be used as a means of social control.
“The GPS, that’s a severe idea,” Trump said. “I’ve been hearing about it. What happens? A siren goes off if you are too close to somebody?”
The Chinese government this week launched what it describes as a voluntary security program in the southern city of Guangzhou by handing out 17,000 free smartwatches to elementary school children.
Professor Tom Bensky at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, has developed an app that tracks classroom attendance using the GPS function on his student’s smartphones.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The Norwegian Intelligence Service says GPS signal disruption as seen during major NATO drills in Norway last year “is of particular concern” for the military and “is also a threat to civil aviation in peacetime.” The
The United Kingdom will create a GPS-like “sovereign” satellite system to rival the European Union’s Galileo programme, Theresa May revealed Friday evening as she met with world leaders in Buenos Aires at the G20 summit.
A Pennsylvania woman drove her car onto train tracks, blaming her GPS for directing her off the road and into danger, according to police.
Finland has summoned the Russian ambassador to express “concern regarding GPS signal disruption” that occurred during NATO’s vast Trident Juncture military drills in Norway “and the security risks it causes.”
Russia has been accused of disrupting the satellite signals vital to the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) during a major NATO military exercise last week, moving the Russian government to deny involvement.
Music streaming service Spotify is reportedly cracking down on users who share their “family” accounts with friends by requesting GPS location checks from users.
Crew members with the show Inside Edition who had been reporting on San Francisco Bay Area crime became victims of the very crimes they were reporting on.
China has mandated that all cars in one prefecture of western Xinjiang province carry government-issued tracking devices so that Beijing’s Communist Party officials are aware of the locations of all cars in Bayingol at all times.
BERLIN (AP) — Eight years late and billions over budget, European officials flipped the switch Thursday on a satellite navigation system meant to rival the U.S.-made GPS service that’s become a staple feature of smartphones and cars worldwide. The Galileo
TEL AVIV – The IDF Transport Center, the body in charge of deploying tanks, armored personnel carriers, ammunition, gas, water and food to military units around the country, is gearing up for a multi-front conflict in Israel’s north and south.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided inaccurate location data for at least 22 hospitals in the Afghanistan province of Kabul, placing the health facilities at risk of suffering the same deadly fate as the Doctors Without Borders medical center, according to a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.
Can you imagine how few accidents must happen on the roads in Riyadh? Pretty much the only thing Saudi Arabia gets right is forbidding women from driving, thereby avoiding the terrible hell known colloquially as “femsteering.” Meanwhile, in the west, an
While the Obama administration deals with the fallout from bombing a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, the Saudis have a similar situation on their hands in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi insurgents.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided inaccurate location data for nearly two dozen health facilities in the western Afghan province of Herat, placing the hospitals at risk of suffering the same deadly fate as the Doctors Without Borders medical center, a watchdog agency appointed by Congress found.
