Ships disappearing following change to Chinese data law
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An open source based system which is decentralized would minimize the possibility to be shut down by one country as it happens right now. Obvious.
What about GPS that can be switched off by the US? Or glonas that can be switched of by Russians..
So that's the answers to your question.
AIS is being managed by a Beijing based company. That is a problem right now, because everything is depending on that data and Beijing knows that. In year 2018 they tryed to manipulate ships positions shifting them to another position (and did that)..
So please would you explain what solutions you propose?
What? No. AIS is a technical standard that allows ships to broadcast their position to avoid colliding with other ships in the area, it's not managed by any one company.
The companies that the article is talking about have covered China with a network of receivers recording the AIS transmissions of all ships, and until recently they were selling access to that surveillance feed to other companies who integrate data from multiple countries to enable worldwide tracking.
> In year 2018 they tryed to manipulate ships positions shifting them to another position (and did that).
That wasn't manipulation at the level of AIS recording companies; the ships themselves were misreporting their position because something was interfering with their GPS signal.