GPS tracking of children

random member · 12-17-2004, 11:57 PM

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

Beam Yosho the Drunkard · 12-18-2004, 04:14 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.

Glyph Phoenix · 12-18-2004, 06:29 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....

Link2000 · 12-18-2004, 11:55 AM

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.

Rainbow Dash · 12-23-2004, 09:09 AM

They have no chance to run away now.

12-17-2004, 11:57 PM	#1
random member Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 66 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	How would you feel if your parents could track where you are 24/7?

12-18-2004, 04:14 AM	#2
Beam Yosho the Drunkard Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The oversized rock of Hawaii. Gender: Posts: 5,670 Thanks: 5 Thanked 17 Times in 13 Posts	...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.

12-18-2004, 06:29 AM	#3
Glyph Phoenix Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Gender: Posts: 1,774 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	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....

12-18-2004, 11:55 AM	#4
Link2000 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Ontario, Canada Gender: Posts: 8,052 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	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.

12-23-2004, 09:09 AM	#5
Rainbow Dash been dreamin', i've been waitin' Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: a bomb-ass cloud house bachelorette pad Gender: Posts: 24,402 Thanks: 173 Thanked 1,179 Times in 716 Posts	They have no chance to run away now.