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There was a story here locally where a young boy wandered out of his house while he was thought to be napping. The parents noticed and a search was started, but

There was a story here locally where a young boy wandered out of his house while he was thought to be napping. The parents noticed and a search was started, but after a few hours they found him inside a neighbors car, dead from the Texas heat. A GPS tracker would have saved his life. I understand the privacy and personal liberty concerns, but I have a hard time coming to a decision on this one myself.

Cpoll 7y ago
You can find an isolated incident for anything. When you get your GPS trackers, you'll be able to tell an anecdote about a child who was hiding from a criminal, but was found by a GPS tracker.
hnaccy 7y ago
A single dead child was enough to put you on the fence of wide spread skin implanted GPS trackers?
michannne 7y ago
That's a ridiculous argument. There are a myriad of other things that could have saved his life. Safety measures around the house to prevent young kids wandering outside at night, home surveillance to keep an eye on the property and alerts anytime movement is spotted around the house after a certain time, or even teaching kids not to go wandering off in the dead of night. How did he even get into the neighbors car? Was it malicious? Then it has nothing to do with tracking, they should worry about that neighbors record. If not, how would tracking have helped a young kid somehow getting themselves trapped in someone else's car? Notice how eroding privacy even further is not even in the top 10 things that could have improved this situation
XaoDaoCaoCao 7y ago
A dumb boy wandered outside and went inside thr dumbest place to find shelter from heat, the inside of a car. For this you want to expose society to even more dystopian ruin by hyper-asymetrical information gatherng via GPS on a per body basis. You can't make this up.

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There was a story here locally where a young boy wandered out of his house while he was thought to be napping. The parents noticed and a search was started, but

by owlninja 7y ago

Cpoll 7y ago
You can find an isolated incident for anything. When you get your GPS trackers, you'll be able to tell an anecdote about a child who was hiding from a criminal, but was found by a GPS tracker.
hnaccy 7y ago
A single dead child was enough to put you on the fence of wide spread skin implanted GPS trackers?
michannne 7y ago
That's a ridiculous argument. There are a myriad of other things that could have saved his life. Safety measures around the house to prevent young kids wandering outside at night, home surveillance to keep an eye on the property and alerts anytime movement is spotted around the house after a certain time, or even teaching kids not to go wandering off in the dead of night. How did he even get into the neighbors car? Was it malicious? Then it has nothing to do with tracking, they should worry about that neighbors record. If not, how would tracking have helped a young kid somehow getting themselves trapped in someone else's car? Notice how eroding privacy even further is not even in the top 10 things that could have improved this situation
XaoDaoCaoCao 7y ago
A dumb boy wandered outside and went inside thr dumbest place to find shelter from heat, the inside of a car. For this you want to expose society to even more dystopian ruin by hyper-asymetrical information gatherng via GPS on a per body basis. You can't make this up.