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Anti-drone companies market radio jammers online despite FCC rules outlawing them
NBC News found more than a dozen companies marketing devices for sale online that federal regulators say could severely disrupt communications systems.
In 2016, the commission said it fined an online Chinese retailer, CTS Technology, $34.9 million for marketing hundreds of models of illegal jammers over two years and selling some to undercover FCC staff. Jammers or radio frequency “shields” are also a frequent topic of discussion in online forums dedicated to people who believe that the government or others are singling them out for in-depth surveillance, a belief or phenomenon sometimes known as “ gangstalking.” Zachary Kallenborn, an adjunct fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan policy organization in Washington, said that radio frequency jammers have the potential to interfere with an endless list of sensitive systems from civilian flight control to hospital communications.
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