"Pascal" wrote in message
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This is posted on the IMO page: what are the concerns ans implications?
I have seen many people broadcasting the ships positions on the webb.

Maritime security - AIS ship data

At its79th session in December 2004, the Maritime Safety Committee
(MSC) agreed that, in relation to the issue of freely available
automatic information system (AIS)-generated ship data on the
world-wide web, the publication on the world-wide web or elsewhere of
AIS data transmitted by ships could be detrimental to the safety and
security of ships and port facilities and was undermining the efforts
of the Organization and its Member States to enhance the safety of
navigation and security in the international maritime transport sector.

According to Dutch law and the law in many other countries, one is either:
a) free to receive anything, but one may not use, retransmit or publish
received messages to a third party. So according to that law, it would be
illegal IMO to publish AIS data on the web.

or

b) one is not allowed to receive anything else than broadcaast radio, unless
one has a licence for a specific radio service (Germany comes to mind, where
the posession of scanners is illegal).

Meindert

"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
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b) one is not allowed to receive anything else than broadcaast radio,
unless one has a licence for a specific radio service (Germany comes
to mind, where the posession of scanners is illegal).

Meindert



Wasn't long ago that it was a death sentence in Germany to listen to anyone
but the Nazi propaganda machine. How soon they forget....

I know someone who has one of Mr Goebbels radios from the war. Quite
channelized, it is...

Well, I was thinking that they are afraid of the use of AIS data from
the pirates; note that any Internet user could get the info about the
ship. But the pirates could have an cheap AIS receiver in his boat, so
it would have the same info, but only locally (say, within 30 nm).
Unless the bandidos are spraid over the world and the Big Boss want
coordinate the assaults centraly....

Regarding the legality of boadcasting this info, I do not know how it
could be prohibited or controled by the any govern.

Pascal