End of GPS-neutrality
The GPS Global Positioning System has been conceived by the US Army for it’s internal use and has been widely adopted all around the world, from cross-country runners to airplane positioning, and natyurally cars GPS.
The US Army don’t hesitate to “scramble” the GPS injecting random variation of position in their satellites system, for example during the Gulf War. Consumer GPS systems will render inaccurate informations, precision going from 5 meters or less to 100 meters, rendering consumer GPS less reliable during a conflict to avoid misuse by ennemies.
Naturally, everyone using a consumer-level GPS near Irak was targeted, whatever it’s use of the GPS system.
Yesterday, Apple decided to remove GPS-ability from Egyptian iPhone, wherever you use it, and for any iPhone used with an Egyptian cell carrier (even if used by roaming for foreigners in Egypt).
Now, US Army, and some big companies like Apple may decide who could use the GPS system, and who couldn’t use it, putting the GPS system as a commercial weapon as well as a war weapon, and breaking it’s neutrality.