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______________________________________________________________________________________ - skeetshot, on 01/07/2009, -1/+59Sounds like these parents are more paranoid than worried
- Falconwing, on 01/07/2009, -3/+45This is so entirely and utterly NOT okay.
Since when don't children have any right to privacy? When you grew up, would you have liked to NOT BEING ABLE TO hide anything from your parents? Devices such as this ought to be banned under Human Rights clauses such as ECHR 8.1. Yes, human rights apply to minors, too.
Several countries have jail sentences that can be commuted to wearing a device similar to this one, allowing you to be tracked anywhere you go for the duration of the jail term. That is the appropriate and already-common equivalent in many legislations: wearing a device like this denies you basic privacy rights fully equivalent to a prison sentence. And parents want to expose their children to this treatment?
Also, imagine how this would condition an entire generation to be used to be tracked everywhere. Useful for when they're adult and don't see it as odd. - inactive, on 01/07/2009, -7/+38Another crappy story from the Daily Hate Mail. Don't encourage the Fox News of the UK.
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -1/+26That's quite scary. The threat of gang violence/paedophilies in the UK is incredibly low; stuff like this only encourages the enroach of the state (Or even worse, private companies) into a "Big Brother" style system (It's a cliché, but it's the best I can think of; I'm not a conspiracy theorist nut either, for example, I'm in favour of CCTV). I can see how it might be applied to people with Alzheimers/Severe Depression etc, but outside of medical reasons, crap like this should be banned.
Also, as it's from the Daily Heil, of course it's going to have a positive viewpoint for this story, considering that the same paper is probably telling you that there's paedophiles, cannabis users and socialists behind every bush. - Renton, on 01/07/2009, -2/+25Next week on Digg: Worried government can track civilians with GPS locator watch
- popstation, on 01/07/2009, -0/+22thanks for the ideas
- Loserbait, on 01/07/2009, -2/+22South Park already did it?
http://i39.tinypic.com/29fv2tt.jpg - conradtjbass, on 01/07/2009, -0/+18This isn't anything new. The watch, maybe, but the rest isn't.
- jeffkee, on 01/07/2009, -4/+21And psychopath control freak parents can just choke on that watch.
- Fhwqhgads, on 01/07/2009, -1/+16This is the first step towards an all out surveillance state. People will of course accept this as they are absolutely ***** bonkers about children. The next step is non-children. Need to keep tabs on grandpa. Need to keep tabs on the girlfriend, etc.
"The State must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
-Adolf Hitler - Azerael, on 01/07/2009, -0/+15If you're so paranoid you want to track your kid's every move, you need therapy, not crazy spy gadgets.
- TotalHalibut, on 01/07/2009, -5/+20The Daily Mail does not deserve traffic. It's a hate-filled tabloid, responsible for the deaths of children due to their ill-informed MMR-vaccine scare, and a general xenophobic attitude towards immigrants, muslims and the like. There are better places to get your news and as such, anything by the Daily Mail deserves to be buried at once, it is the Fox News of Britain.
- TalkingBadger, on 01/07/2009, -1/+15Now be fair to the Daily Mail. They managed to write a whole story without blaming everything on immigration. That has got to be a first for them.
/s - lekahe, on 01/07/2009, -2/+15Where were these devices when my father was alive and had Alzheimers' ? He got lost and we had to call the police! This was not more than 3 years ago :(
In Finland tracking your children is nothing else but spying, they are totally safe. - Hoogs, on 01/07/2009, -1/+12This doesn't seem right to me. At all. I don't think we give kids enough credit in terms of judgment, to be honest. Plus, it would kind of ruin that whole aspect of growing up (discovering your boundaries, etc.), and I think that aspect is important. This device would simply send a message to the child that their parents don't trust them, and that can't be good. Let kids be kids, they can handle more than you think.
- Anonymerican, on 01/07/2009, -0/+10So when you're at the market, or wherever else it is that you can't keep track of your own offspring, you run home, check a website, and hopefully when you get back, your kid is within 10 ft of where you last noted the blip?
- Angostura, on 01/07/2009, -0/+10FYI - Scotland, England and Wales = Britain. Britain + Northern Ireland = The United Kingdom
- celerityfm, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8Here, take it for luck. Now go to sleep...and don't dream.
- Heiminator, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8a big german news magazine (der stern) recently tested mobile phones for children,which all had some sort of tracking function,the magazines headquarter is in hamburh,next to the sea and the harbour,and the devices were so inaccurate that they kept reporting the position to be somewhere in the inner harbour,which would be kind of discomforting for the parents :-)
- DeathJux, on 01/07/2009, -1/+9Be sure and bury this Daily Mail crap too.
Hopefully the "Digg algorithm" will eventually "realize" this ***** is paid-for and kick it the ***** out. - JonathonB, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8I once made a script for my GPS enabled phone that would plot my location into a database and could be viewed as a self updating google map. Just as a small thing to test if I could do it, more than anything else. I imagine that this is a similar thing as GPS can't be tracked without something else (i.e. a mobile network). I found that it made my parents even more worried when it lost signal and stopped updating whilst travelling. Another problem is that GPS is a satellite technology - so you need to have a good reception for it which could be lost easily in a city with high buildings etc.
If you did need something like this, there are similar things to work based off the mobile phone location. It's not as accurate as GPS but better signal coverage and at least gives an area the phone is in. Though, I really don't think we're in a world that requires every child to wear one of these electronic tags... - iEternal, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8Parents don't need a magical watch, they need better parenting skills. If you don't know your children, and don't know how to keep an eye on them, you completely fail - then there is no watch in all the universe that's going to help you.
The watch is irrelevant anyways, the microchip is on it's way. - DucoNihilum, on 01/07/2009, -1/+9Sounds like something my mother would buy.
She was having a panic attack over younger brother seeing the movies without an adult for the first time....
He's 13. - Pixelante, on 01/07/2009, -1/+8Better they get used to surveillance, because Britain seem to be irrevocably committed to the ideals of the Panopticon Paradise. I think the limeys will love it. Some slaves love their chains.
- breadfred, on 01/07/2009, -0/+7Due to scare mongers as yourself, the UK has now the largest outbreak of measles in the Western World.
- Rizak, on 01/07/2009, -0/+7For those who don't know, if you have Sprint there is a program called "Family Locater" for GPS enabled phones, you can program it to alert you if they don't get to a location at a specific time (ie. school) or you can just locate them whenever you want. It costs about 10 bucks a month I think...
- phosphite, on 01/07/2009, -2/+9+1 for a pedobear lurking in the shadows
- vbullinger, on 01/07/2009, -0/+6I'm so tired of that argument. Do you REALLY need to experience everything before you could ever, ever possibly understand anything?!?
I have nieces and nephews. I've babysat. I've had pets. Why do I NEED to have children before I can argue the matter?
Oh, and when I have kids - in the near future - I will NOT, I repeat, NOT change my opinions on this matter! - vbullinger, on 01/07/2009, -0/+6Also, don't you think that people that go around abducting children might go "Oh, you have one of those GPS tracking watches. Let me just take that and throw it outside of a moving vehicle."
This isn't some foolproof method, people. - Lateralis1, on 01/07/2009, -2/+8The Daily Fail.
buried. - breadfred, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5@mongoman5: please, supply some sort of evidence or data for your proposition that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Oh that's right, you don't have any.
Oranges case polio. Baked beans causes schizophrenia. See? easy to put silly statements out without any evidence. That however does not make them true. However, beans DO make you fart. - borez, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5That's an Insult to Fox news mate.
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5If this catches any kind of mainstream stickiness, I'd be surprised. The exception: boys between 5-12 years old. No teenager would wear it. If so, they'd quickly think to have a friend hold onto it if they were skipping school, or going somewhere they shouldn't be.
If it did gain popularity, doing so would greatly reduce it's effectiveness at finding kidnapped children, as it's pretty easy to remove a watch. - inactive, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5Kinda reminds me of child tracker from south park - it will wind up being used more often as a way to hyper control kids rather than protect them.
- Trots, on 01/07/2009, -1/+6*hacks website*
*sells it to pedophile*
Don't judge me! - Mittens27, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5I guess it's okay if the parents owe the mob money or something... Or if your Brittany Spears.
- Rahyl, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Yup, go ahead and listen to stories of boogie-men and slap one of these on all of your children. We all know a child molester can't pull the watch off and discard it. Ditto for others who victimize children. Governments around the world are itching to slap these devices on all of their citizens "for their own good" so we might as well get people used to the idea as children. Heaven forbid parents put down their booze, turn off the TV, and actually be somewhere near their children.
- SilverRocket, on 01/07/2009, -1/+5With those statistics, can I get you to invest in my super-cool "lightning-proof" clothing line? I mean, what if you're outside and you get hit by lightning?
- honeybrass, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4beep*beep* Tracking Children .........100%
Readying giant space laser ............100%
FIRE!!! - Eugenitor, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4And we all know how fast and loose the UK is with private data these days.
Next up: A kid hacks into the system (most likely: password guessing) and appears to his peers to be psychic. Or uses it on his little siblings.
Or some abusive husband starts using it on his wife.
Come to think of it, there's a whole new bondage fetish that could be made with these things.
Feel safer yet? - DrVic, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Still waiting for the neck/bomb device from Total Recall
- Testiculese, on 01/07/2009, -1/+5"Also, imagine how this would condition an entire generation to be used to be tracked everywhere. Useful for when they're adult and don't see it as odd."
Exactly why this is being released. - inactive, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Why not just inject a GPS tracker in your children when they are young.... these poor kids.
- Notasheeple, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Sure it is, why don't you just drug test them every week and turn them in to the cops if they come up dirty while you're at it?
Just destroy all trust right up front and turn your kids into fear mongers just like you.
That way when they grow up to hate you, you can at least say,
"well I did what I thought was right, I mean the gubment said it was a good idea, why would they lie." - LoudMusic, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4I'm worried that parents can track children with a GPS locator watch, too. Seems excessive. Kind of like putting your kid on a leash in the mall. And they've had these GPS trackers for pets for quite a while.
YOUR CHILD IS NOT A DOG. - DanOnTheMoon, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Reason # 1,256,854 to say "Aw, ***** it, I'm just not having kids".
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