High-tech tracking by police raises legal outcry

[Dale Thorn]

Mike McNally wrote:
> Secret Squirrel wrote:
> > The technology, marketed by a company called Teletrac, is simple:
> > A tramsmitter sends a radio signal to a computer ...

> Anybody know the frequencies used?
> (Anybody willing to guess whether the FCC might quietly introduce
> prohibitions against scanners that can receive those frequencies?)

The newer scanners are apparently moving more of their "intelligence"
to EEPROM (or Flash memory), which makes a permanent fix extremely
difficult for the feds.