Swiss firm set to market `smart' guns

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Article discussing SIG Swiss Industrial Co. Holding Ltd.'s introduction of a handgun with a lock that requires the owner to punch in a personal identification code to pull the trigger. The Model P229 Electronic Personal Lock System is expected to sell for roughly $950 (Euro938.74) when it arrives in gun stores early in 2000.

Switzerland, Product introduction, Small Arms Manufacturing, Pistols & Revolvers, Firearms industry, Firearms industry and trade, Hand guns, SIG Swiss Industrial Company Ltd., P229 (Hand gun)

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U.S. privacy advocates fret over plans for tracking cell-phone users' locations

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The US Federal Communications Commission wants wireless telephone service providers to pinpoint 911 calls by Oct 2001 to within 100 ft. Privacy advocates are concerned even though the government wants the changes to assist stranded drivers and crime victims.

United States, Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Government regulation, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Privacy, Mobile Radio Regulation NEC, Interpretation and construction, Laws, regulations and rules, Cellular telephone services industry, Cellular telephone services, Telecommunications regulations, Wireless communications, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Economic policy, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Emergency reporting systems (Telephone)

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