Public Rights of Passive Radio Wave Detection and Identification

It is the Information Age and with it come new interpretations of rights, responsibilities and accountability.

I believe that the one of those interpretations and applications of old established Rights based on self evident truths is that we have the right to passively detect and know certain information about the physical location origin and nature of radio wave communications.  Not their content but their meta data.

Active mode radio waves have the potential for surveillance that may violate constitutional rights to privacy.  They may also be justified by law on a specific granular target case by case court approved basis premised on justifiable cause.   

On the other hand if the public has the right and means to simply identify the physical location of the origin of radio wave transmission and identification of the transmission protocols it to a great degree insures the right to know the difference between locations and protocols that may violate rights to privacy and those that do not.

It appears true that every radio wave transmission is geographically sourced to an exact physical location.  It may channel hop but unless the signal is also geographically hopped from one source to another it can be pinned to an exact (perhaps mobile but exact in real time gps traceablility) location and signal type can be identified.

Every personal communication device should have the ability to passively detect all and any physical location sources of radio wave transmission location as well as technical nature meta data.  It should also have the ability to certify trusted communication sites.  Spoofing of trusted sites by any means by anyone should be a violation of Federal Law with severe penalties including immediate physical destruction of originating uncertified origins of public communications nodes by law enforcement entities.  Those uncertified communication entities should be reported by any citizen passively detecting them with their personal communication device and reporting it via a 911 text that includes the IMSI of the reporting device, its GPS location and the IMSI of the uncertified transmitting device and its GPS location.  It is the equivalent of a citizen video documention of the commission of crime.

Public safety and persona rights protected by the public!

Protection and rights at the granular personal level.  This same model should extend upward to collective entity levels of the Internet.