Big Brother – Is Watching Your College Kid
Students Must Carry And Pay For GPS-Based Cell Device reports this headline from Montclair State.
Here’s the money quote from the article:
“What it does is allow students to have an extra pair or group of people watching over them when they’re going from one location to another,” Montclair Police Department Chief Paul Cell said.
Going back as far as 2004, when PC World noted Privacy Watch: Soon, Your Cell Phone May Be Tracking You: GPS chips in handsets make cell phone tracking services a reality, you were warned that the chips in your phones may also be used to spy on you. More recently, this year, the more left-leaning PBS had a special entitled GPS Technology Helps Parents Track Teens.
I don’t know about you, but I am a big bearded guy between the ages of 20 and 50 who doesn’t mind being wanded at the airport. I’m more concerned about leaving my cell phone powered on and who might be tracking where I am when I am not aware of it.
What do you think? Comment.
