I cannot get sleepy for some reason. Well, I know that has something to do with the six hours I clocked early last night. I went to bed at about 6:30 p.m. and woke back up at around 12:30 a.m. I was just so tired from yesterday, from the whole week. I even done some homework about an hour ago. Yes, my life is unexciting and unstimulating.
The homework I did—believe me, this isn’t a boring topic—was a proposal on our ethics project for Technology, Literacy, & Culture, which centers on Cell Phone Tracking Parents. This has become a reality.
Katherine Albrecht, mentioned in the article by Barry Levine, discusses the factor that I see as the major problem with GPS Cell Phone Tracking Technology.
“I have a problem with any kind of tracking device, especially for kids,” she says, “because they will grow up with the expectation that tracking your every move is a normal part of life. It raises the hair on my neck because we’re training kids to be tracked at all times and they will think that some authority tracking them is fine.”
This is a real issue. People my age (22) may be some of the last people in the U.S. who believe it is wrong to have our every move tracked. Sure, our every move isn’t being tracked at the moment—I hope not, at least—but this is a future that could be real. Kids today, might not know that they have certain privacy rights when they become adults. Even adults now don’t know about their rights of privacy.
Cell Phone Tracking isn’t all a bad thing either. There’s E911, which is a great thing by all means. It provides emergency teams to get to an emergency quicker and more efficiently than before, in some cases. This is definitely a good thing if you’re living in a back-of-the-woods Alabama town. Parents can actually know where their kids are if the kids’ cell phones are on and not ditched at a friend’s house. Of course, what kid would turn off or leave their cell phone somewhere? Not many. This can also be a bad thing, which I went over before.
The real truth is, is that Cell Phone Tracking has positive and negative consequences. It depends on which viewpoint you’re looking at it from. This is a reality that is upon us all.
I’m normally against tracking, but for parents I think it’s a great idea…
this is the great thing i admire this
tracking is really helpful specially for your childrens safety, when you not around you can easily pinpoint where you kids are, but for the privacy of most people i think im against with it.
I think this issue is very much controversial,but the post itself is very helpful for us.Regarding privacy of life I’m against it but in terms of safety and emergency phone tracking is necessary.
You need to step into reality.
First, why would anyone care if they are being tracked unless thay are doing something wrong? Nobody cares about what you do unless you are doing something that is a problem for the rest of society.
Second, you are being tracked no matter what you think. Everytime you make a credit card purchase, you have been tracked and that’s the way it has been for quite some time. Again, nobody cares until you do something wrong, then you can be traced by those CC transactions.
Finally, If someone really wants to track you, they can and will. There are so many ways do do it that your head would spin just trying to grasp them all.
So people like you need to stop living in some kind of fantasy world. You complain about thechnology to track you yest you leave your life all over the internet. Like so many people your age you live on the web or cell phone…then you talk about privacy. Don’t be a tard.
It’s called “privacy.” I’d wager that most people care if they’re being tracked, no matter if they’re doing something wrong.
Of course we are. Just because it’s happening though, doesn’t make it right.
You either don’t understand what the word “complain” means or you didn’t read my post thoroughly.
Don’t be a dumbass. If you’re willing to give your rights away, that’s fine. You certainly have the right to do so. Some of us would like to keep them.