Conservative want higher sentences for failure to decrypt child pornography

[Roland Perry]

In message <5.1.0.14.0.20020919074516.01b9d730@mail.cix.co.uk>, Peter
Sommer <hcorn@cix.co.uk> writes
>Although I doubt the technology will be productive and cost effective ,
>I had understood that the way it is supposed to work is that a GPS
>signal is received by the device but the offender positioning data is
>transmitted via the cellular network.

One could devise such an apparatus - although I don't know how much the
GSM transmitter would interfere with the extremely sensitive GPS
receiver. If you wanted it "always on" you could use GPRS!

Most GPS receivers have mapping and tracking built in, so it would be
much easier to have it either remember when the offender went outside
their territory (for inspection later), or even sound a local alarm.

All of this is going to be somewhat bulky and eat batteries!
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