GPS tracking of children

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GPS tracking of children

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Post by random member » Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:57 am

How would you feel if your parents could track where you are 24/7?

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Post by Beam Yosho the Drunkard » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:14 am

...Had me scared for a second there. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I thought this was going to be a chip implant. Good thing it wasn't.
...But the belt-around-the-kid-idea works well.

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Post by Glyph Phoenix » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:29 am

I laughed when they said the tracking device took things to "Big Brother" extremes. (I laughed because I caught the reference, not because of whether that was an exaggeration or not.)

But, when you think about it, it kind of does take things that way.

I can understand one's concern for the safety of a child, but constant survellance? GPS tracking? I guess it all depends on your personal point of view. You're completely demolishing any privacy your kid has.

My take on this is that if you have to know where your kid is all of the time as literally as that in order to keep them out of trouble, no technology is going to save you there. Maybe for really little kids, I guess....

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Post by Link2000 » Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:55 pm

This thing is for toddlers guys, not older kids. You've certainly seen one of those "child-leashes" haven't you?

People make references to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four all of the time.
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Post by Rainbow Dash » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:09 am

They have no chance to run away now.

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