How would you feel if your every movement was tracked? If someone could look up where you had been throughout the day? What if your employer presented you with a summary of how much time you spent in the bathroom?
Doesn’t sound good, does it?
Now what if it’s your child and he or she is missing like the little girl in Portugal? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have to have a tracking device to find her? To know exactly where she is? And what if your grandfather with Alzheimer’s sometimes gets disoriented. Wouldn’t it be nice to know where he is just in case he doesn’t come home one day?
Today personal GPS trackers are still fairly uncommon, but there are a lot of companies out there trying to cash in on the concept:
Corrigo sells a product that allows you to track your employees.
GPS Nanny has a product that you can put in a car to track your teenagers movements, with or our without their knowledge.
Of course you don’t even have to go for some exotic product. You can just get your kid a Verizon cell-phone and order the Chaperone service.
What will people’s expectations of privacy be twenty years from now when children have grown up with these systems in place? And how conniving will children become to get around these systems?
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