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05-25-2014, 05:46 PM
Commerical GPS Turns 25: How the Unwanted Military Tech Found Its True Calling
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It's hard to imagine in this para**iac age of electronic eavesdropping, data mining and myriad digital spying schemes by nefarious civilians, corporations and Big Brother government, but at one time the military actively fought against implementing arguably the most important spy tech of all time — GPS (http://mashable.com/category/gps/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
**t only did the military finally agree to build the GPS system, but "Tear down this wall!" President Ronald Reagan directed the Department of Defense to declassify it as well as actively aid and abet commercial GPS development.
See also: The First Cellphone Went on Sale 30 Years Ago for $4,000 (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/first-cellphone-on-sale/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/25/commercial-gps-25-anniversary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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It's hard to imagine in this para**iac age of electronic eavesdropping, data mining and myriad digital spying schemes by nefarious civilians, corporations and Big Brother government, but at one time the military actively fought against implementing arguably the most important spy tech of all time — GPS (http://mashable.com/category/gps/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
**t only did the military finally agree to build the GPS system, but "Tear down this wall!" President Ronald Reagan directed the Department of Defense to declassify it as well as actively aid and abet commercial GPS development.
See also: The First Cellphone Went on Sale 30 Years Ago for $4,000 (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/first-cellphone-on-sale/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/25/commercial-gps-25-anniversary/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Gps (http://mashable.com/category/gps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Geolocation (http://mashable.com/category/geolocation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Location Based Service (http://mashable.com/category/location-based-service/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Gadgets (http://mashable.com/gadgets/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/VQp4vcmrx8A