Radio-Frequency Law

[stryder]

Have you ever been asked permission of by a company that deals in mobile phone transmissions, radio, television or even wifi to broadcast across your property or through your personage?

It might seem a strange question, however I'm sure the answer will be "No". 

To my knowledge it's some magical assumption that everyone assumes/adopts that radio-frequency should be transmitted across property and diffused through your personage without any permission being sought.  It in itself is a Human Rights violation since it can cause distress to a person, your freedom of choice has been undermined, in fact you could imply that you've been enslaved into something that is extremely profitable to telecommunications firms. 

There is then the Civil Rights in regards to privacy, what people don't necessarily know is that radiology can be used to view the insides of a room or building through the use of diffusion.  (some materials and objects diffuse differently from each other, which allows a capture of what "comes out the other side" along with any reflective radio-frequency to spy on a property.)  It's far more technical than a simple tracking cookie however it's no less possible.

If anything, every person in every country is actually owed damages by those companies for not asking the relevant permissions.

I know they probably would suggest "why don't you just shield yourself"... The reality is that it shouldn't be upon a person (or cost a person) to try and work out ways to evade radio-frequency, if anything it's sloppy business practices that are asking the other guy to do the foot work, they are the ones responsible for generating their pollution, it's therefore up to them to make sure they keep it under control.  (Namely they should ask a persons permission and pay them concessions for using it in their environment, for causing distress or interfering with other services that the person in question has agreed to.)

I am admittedly intrigued in what can be done legally in regards to how far any legal action could be taken against such companies and whether in the long run a Class Action Suit could be done against them for people in general.

[C C]

The effects of voluntary mobile phone use and unrequested high voltage power line fields on biological tissue is menacing enough without more EM trespassers in the unsolicited class of the latter. It would be a relief for everyone in this neighborhood to be able to remove their tin-foil hats and somatic shielding for awhile.

[Magical Realist]

I'm getting radiated by a wireless signal even as I type this. Aren't we implicated into the crime to the extent that we use it for our personal satisfaction? Ethically speaking, aren't we each voting yes to this EM infiltration of our flesh with every button we push on our phones, remotes, and computers?

[stryder]

The Quiet Zone: Where mobile phones are banned
By Emile Holba and Sara Jane Hall

Anyone driving west from Washington DC towards the Allegheny Mountains will arrive before long in a vast area without mobile phone signals. This is the National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence. What is it for and how long will it survive?

As we drive into the Allegheny Mountains the car radio fades to static. I glance at my mobile phone but the signal has disappeared.

Ahead of us a dazzling white saucer looms above the wooded terrain of West Virginia, getting bigger and bigger with every mile. It's the planet's largest land-based movable object - the Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) - 2.3 acres in surface area, and taller than the Statue of Liberty.

But it needs electrical peace and quiet to do its job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32758042

There is obviously some parts of the world that have radiological silence, the problem is find one in a location that fits the right criteria.

One of the concerns of the local community there apparently is that eventually if someone pulled the plug on the telescope funding might dry up in the area.  So what things could be offered in such locations to subsidise maintaining radiological silence?

[C C]

The territory was set aside for protection in 1958, but even the NRAO never had the clout again to impose electromagnetic silence around other radio telescopes in New Mexico and Arizona. So if reduced to just a subset of green lifestyle, supported and backed by arguments and agenda, only an inferior level of financial resources could probably be mustered for quiet zones lacking research privileges. The days of expensively tracking down "polluters" like small electric arcs in the cracked wiring of household devices would be over; though it's difficult to imagine the residents desiring that level of freedom from spectrum saturation, anyway.

Perhaps the radiation-muted region itself could be exploited in some [ingenious] way as a tourist attraction for drawing profits fed back into sustaining it. Or lottery tickets and other gambling might be made available along its borders for outsiders of the neighboring "energy-heathen" districts, counties, provinces. Otherwise, impassioned environmentalists of this particular stripe would have to be the dominant population of the concerned area, with their votes spurring and maintaining applicable legislation for either establishing or continuing a quiet zone. Thereby also willing to pay the exorbitant local taxes for realization and enforcement of its standards.

[elte]

In the old days of AM radio DXing I could pick up stations out in the Western US from here in the Ohio River Valley. The air waves were relatively quiet back in those days of the early 70s before there was so much digital stuff making radio frequency noise.

There was one very strange static-type of noise that was always perplexing to me when I was listening to distant radio stations near 600 khz. Its source was somewhere in the utility room. (At my parents house.) That description of defective insulation on wiring causing arcing makes sense as to what might have been the problem.