Posted on 10/27/2009 5:42:32 PM PDT by luckybogey
GPS device can track children
Updated: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009, 12:13 AM EDT Published : Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009, 12:13 AM EDT
KELLY JOYCE | FOX 35 News
ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A GPS device the size of your pinky finger is about to hit store shelves and the web. Some parents say it's a good way to keep track of children given all of the children disappearing in central Florida.
The "insignia little buddy tracker" is a Best Buy brand GPS system that's about to hit store shelves.
It's already drawn so much interest it's on back order on the Best Buy website , and it comes with software that allows you to put in settings of where your child is supposed to be during certain times of the day. If your child leaves that designated area you will get an alert on your phone or email.
If you ask grandmother Midda Garcia, the Little Buddy Tracker can't show up soon enough. "Definitely something I would use," she says. "Definitely! At least you're gonna know where your child is at."
The Little Buddy Tracker costs $100 and is expected to hit store shelves in the next few weeks.
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/1847999,CST-NWS-tracker27.article
this link has a pic and video..
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/money/102609_GPS_device_can_track_children
People should start naming their children Waldo.
Maybe your parents want to get lost.......
Marking to come back later. The possible abuse of this type of technology is what worries me. OTOH, I can see the benefits for parents and children, too.
Exactly. I’m not sure I’d get one for a kid.
Instead of “Little Buddy” they could call it the “Gilligan.”
Need to be sure Pedophiles cannot use it. Is it fully encrypted and digital so only the parent can track?
I should add, one of our sons had a cell phone we could use to track him. But, if the kid drops the cell phone or tracking device...
I have seen on local TV recently when several individuals with Alzheimer’s disease disappeared and were not found until it was too late.
I know that——but this senior citizen doesn’t always want to be found-—LOL!
I see the good in this, I also see the bad. My FIRST thought was if I can track this device, who else can.
If “they” know you Child’s whereabouts and activities, “they” know yours, too.
I trust nothing post 0bama’s ascension.
In 1989 I suggested a similar product while in a senior entrepenuer class at NEU. I called it lo-Jack for kids
the professor and the business majors bashed it
I was only 20 years ahead of the pack
IF you had software that enable and disable it, then it MIGHT be a good idea. Right now, it’s just like Onstar, and you have no control.
No way.
Loss of freedom ALWAYS starts out with “for our own good.”
First it’s voluntary, then it’s mandatory.
And since a predator could locate this particular device and destroy it, well, then why not have it implanted, where the evil predators can’t get at it?
And so it goes...
I was going to say “wife tracker”, and why was she out of the kitchen!
Oh kay....where does one put it?
looks like the tube Dustin Hoffman kept his extra pair of glasses in Papillon
I find it hard to believe that a very small device on the arm or in the pocket of a little kid could receive sufficient GPS signals to make it really useful.
Just color me a gadget-freak who has bought more neat little things like this than I like to admit. Very few of them did what they promised. Starting with those rip-off glasses advertised in the comic books in the 50’s that said you would be able to see through girl's clothes. And then there was the walkie-talkie system I bought that turned out to be nothing more than a plastic can and string device.
Yup, been there, done that.
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