Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Chinese prefecture orders GPS trackers in every car in effort to curb violence

Drivers in a restive Chinese province will be required to install GPS trackers on their cars, the Associated Press reports, as part of a public safety measure that the government announced this week. The measure began rolling out Monday in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest Xianjing region, which has seen outbursts of violence in recent years.

By June 30th, all private and government vehicles in Bayingolin will have to install real-time GPS trackers that use China’s Beidou satellite system, developed as an alternative to US-made systems. Vehicles will also be tracked using RFID tags installed in license plates. Citing local media, the AP reports that gas stations will only serve cars that have installed the...

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from
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14682068/china-gps-trackers-xinjiang-uighur-violence

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/02/chinese-prefecture-orders-gps-trackers.html

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