- Target:
- United Kingdom
- Region:
- United Kingdom
It is illegal to provide air traffic control feeds from within the U.K. due to an antiquated law that dates back to 1942.
The antiquated law states that although it is not illegal to sell, buy or own a scanning receiver in the U.K., it must only be used to listen to transmissions meant to be broadcast to the general public.
OFCOM has stated on numerous occasions: "It is an offence to listen to any other radio services unless you are authorised by a designated person to do so."
This means that it is illegal to listen to anything other than general reception transmissions unless you are either a licensed user of the frequencies in question or have been specifically authorized to do so by an authorized person.
Please sign this petition and let us see if we can get this law relaxed for us people who enjoy listening to Aviation and want to do this without breaking any laws.
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The Abolish the UK Law against Listening to Aviation Feeds petition to United Kingdom was written by pgdrans and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.