Privacy and Human Rights
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There has been lots of controversy over GPS and human rights by many civilians and nations. This is because many countries use it to spy on others, and other nations. An example of this is Google Earth; when released, it showed all areas of the world, but then nations and companies threatened to sue if it did not censor certain areas. An example is North Korea who threatens other nations over spying conflicts using satellites and GPS. This threatening has also escalated into North Korea threatening countries with nuclear bombs. There are many issues involving privacy and human rights, although the benefits of GPS outweigh the disadvantages; it was saved peoples’ lives, aided in many different fields, etc. GPS is also open-source, so much of the private stuff on the Earth which is observable is becoming open to the public; it is now very hard to keep a base or object hidden.
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GPS and Kinematics by Simarjeet Singh Thind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.gps.gov/.