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Is it possible to embed a GPS on yourself that is periodically reporting your location?

jcun4128 6y ago
Tangent: I was thinking of a "deadman's switch wipe protocol" and other services as a result of your death eg. donating your assets or something. Would have to be pre-setup. Would be interesting to address false alarms.
- Someone 6y ago
  I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think “Donating your assets” would work (in any jurisdiction, but as I said, I’m not a lawyer, certainly not one versed in law in all countries of the world). Lawyers will argue that the fact that you set this up x months before death doesn’t mean that you still wanted it to happen when you died and/or that, at the time the assets were transferred you weren’t alive, so you couldn’t own the assets. Yes, last wills do both, too, but they have a long history with lots of jurisprudence about what you can and cannot arrange for after you die, and how you should arrange that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_and_testament#Requirements_for_creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_and_testament#Requirement...)
  - jcun4128 6y ago
    oof man that's interesting, perhaps direct beneficiaries, thanks for the food for thought anyway
wackro 6y ago
You mean, like a phone?
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  There's a chain of problems here. You'd need an open source GPS tracking app on your phone that has the rights to record and upload your location to a server whilst running in the background, then you need a personal server to store that stuff on, and then you need to find someone who knows what to do with that lot if and when you disappear.
  - tanatocenose 6y ago
    > You'd need an open source GPS tracking app on your phone that has the rights to record and upload your location to a server whilst running in the background, then you need a personal server to store that stuff on, Multiple solutions for this currently available on f-droid. simple and easy.
  - tanatocenose 6y ago
    The very first link in the postedarticle describes how authorsolved all your points. https://blog.luap.info/how-i-track-my-life.html https://blog.luap.info/how-i-track-my-life.html
- robrenaud 6y ago
  No, clearly whoever kidnaps you is going to take your phone away. I mean something that probably gets embedded under your skin somewhere.
  - niceairport 6y ago
    Would you really want that though? For a feeling of being "safe" from something that could potentially happen?

Tangent: I was thinking of a "deadman's switch wipe protocol" and other services as a result of your death eg. donating your assets or something. Would have to be pre-setup. Would be interesting to address false alarms.

Someone 6y ago
I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think “Donating your assets” would work (in any jurisdiction, but as I said, I’m not a lawyer, certainly not one versed in law in all countries of the world). Lawyers will argue that the fact that you set this up x months before death doesn’t mean that you still wanted it to happen when you died and/or that, at the time the assets were transferred you weren’t alive, so you couldn’t own the assets. Yes, last wills do both, too, but they have a long history with lots of jurisprudence about what you can and cannot arrange for after you die, and how you should arrange that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_and_testament#Requirements_for_creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_and_testament#Requirement...)
- jcun4128 6y ago
  oof man that's interesting, perhaps direct beneficiaries, thanks for the food for thought anyway

wackro 6y ago

You mean, like a phone?

Jaruzel 6y ago
There's a chain of problems here. You'd need an open source GPS tracking app on your phone that has the rights to record and upload your location to a server whilst running in the background, then you need a personal server to store that stuff on, and then you need to find someone who knows what to do with that lot if and when you disappear.
- tanatocenose 6y ago
  > You'd need an open source GPS tracking app on your phone that has the rights to record and upload your location to a server whilst running in the background, then you need a personal server to store that stuff on, Multiple solutions for this currently available on f-droid. simple and easy.
- tanatocenose 6y ago
  The very first link in the postedarticle describes how authorsolved all your points. https://blog.luap.info/how-i-track-my-life.html https://blog.luap.info/how-i-track-my-life.html
robrenaud 6y ago
No, clearly whoever kidnaps you is going to take your phone away. I mean something that probably gets embedded under your skin somewhere.
- niceairport 6y ago
  Would you really want that though? For a feeling of being "safe" from something that could potentially happen?