Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?
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In Favour 9 12.33% Against 59 80.82% abstain 5 6.85%
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Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?A new age is upon us, the phone age, more and more kids are starting to have smart phones, some of these smart phones have GPS. Would you be in favour of using GPS to track your children?
Of course this means restricting features on kids phones.
Please only people who are above 18 can vote, if you're younger you may discuss below
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Know where children are.Last edited by ITGIRL; 09-05-2012 at 14:55. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?OMG that is great idea!(Original post by kaylafrances)
thats a ****ing great idea why don't more people put them on leashes and take them for walks round the park too -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?Children have to much freedom! They destory nearly everything that makes GB great. Chavs are prime example!(Original post by najinaji)
Voted and I'm under 18.
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?When I was a kid, they didn't even have PCs in schools, they wheeled out crappy BBC Micros and Nimbuses for special occasions.(Original post by ITGIRL)
A new age is upon us, the phone age, more and more kids are starting to have smart phones, some of these smart phones have GPS. Would you be in favour of using GPS to track your children?
Of course this means resisting features on kids phones.
Please only people who are above 18 can vote.
Within a few years, when your children are having children, or perhaps before, the technology will be widely available to any person to enable you to Lo-jack anyone almost invisibly by placing a chip into the sole of a shoe, or sewing it into the lining of a jacket.
You can bet the security services have this technology already. Right now you can buy GPS tracking stuff on eBay - something as small as a keyfob is not quite small enough to go unnoticed on a person, but the tech is getting there.Last edited by marcusfox; 09-05-2012 at 14:46. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?(Original post by ITGIRL)
Children have to much freedom! They destory nearly everything that makes GB great. Chavs are prime example!
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?I think all mobile phones with GPS should be able to be tracked by police if needed, as I think this would help with missing person's cases- even if it only shows where the phone was left. Don't think parents should be able to stalk their children though.. that's a bit too far.
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?fail.... Every day i walk past london seeing what you people have done(Grafite) , and one thing is for certain "BAD PARENTING" By using this tecnology we can pin pot locations of chavs, gangs, and ASBOs. We can help children that need it and put them in prision. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?You should not use it to track your children, but it is useful in emergencies - if they are under 14, you should know where they are at all times.
14 and 15 you should broadly know their whereabouts, but they are probably old enough to trust with limited independence their own safety. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?Contradiction. The idea behind this is so you know where your kids are, not so you are watching there move every 1 second.(Original post by marcusfox)
You should not use it to track your children, but it is useful in emergencies - if they are under 14, you should know where they are at all times.. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?They can already trace mobile phones with a cellsite trace(Original post by xoxAngel_Kxox)
I think all mobile phones with GPS should be able to be tracked by police if needed, as I think this would help with missing person's cases- even if it only shows where the phone was left. Don't think parents should be able to stalk their children though.. that's a bit too far.
I made several posts there that explains it. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?(Original post by ITGIRL)
fail.... Every day i walk past london seeing what you people have done(Grafite) , and one thing is for certain "BAD PARENTING" By using this tecnology we can pin pot locations of chavs, gangs, and ASBOs. We can help children that need it and put them in prision.
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?I pretty much agree with this.(Original post by xoxAngel_Kxox)
I think all mobile phones with GPS should be able to be tracked by police if needed, as I think this would help with missing person's cases- even if it only shows where the phone was left. Don't think parents should be able to stalk their children though.. that's a bit too far.
Using the GPS to track and locate children if needed by the police - fine, but to allow parents to follow what their child does every minute of every day is too much of an invasion of privacy for my liking. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?My mum, my sister and I all use this app - life 360 - that basically lets you track your family group. But it's mostly cause we (my mum included) have a tendency to make last minute plans and forget to let anyone else know but we can usually guess by where we show up on the map.
edit: I'm not saying this is for everyone of course but we only come home and talk about where we've been/what we've been doing anyway; it's more to stop my mum worrying when no one answers the phone when she rings.Last edited by catestevenson; 09-05-2012 at 15:06. -
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?Yes exactly.(Original post by ITGIRL)
Contradiction. The idea behind this is so you know where your kids are, not so you are watching there move every 1 second.
Would have helped the McCann's though
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Re: Should parents use GPS To Track Their Children?Over 18 as of a few weeks but still no.
I have overprotective parents and a boyfriend; if they'd known exactly where I was I would never have been able to go anywhere.
I guess it would be useful for really little kids in case they get abducted, but I can see a lot of parties never happening if the technology was available. Also, what's to stop crazy possessive people using it on their partners? if the technology is there it'll get abused.
