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Using GPS to Track Teens

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-mother-is-watching dept.

jmoloug1 writes An article at CBSNews that describes a new service available to parents. It uses cell phone GPS to track how fast the teens are driving and then automatically sends an alert back to the parents when a certain limit has been exceeded. Bad idea for stupid parents who are going to be outwitted by their kids just turning off the phones? Best of all, it's endorsed by our former chief of military ops in Iraq!"

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  1. It's a joke! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    SMS - 1:11:05: Jacob is driving 110mph

    SMS - 1:11:18: Jacob is driving 120mph

    SMS - 1:11:25: Jacob is driving 140mph

    SMS - 1:11:29: Jacob is driving 180mph

    SMS - 1:11:32: Jacob is driving 220mph

    SMS - 1:11:33: Jacob is driving 0mph

    1. Re:It's a joke! by jeremyp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Jacob's brother Joseph was travelling along the same road in the other direction also at 220 mph in a car of identical mass.

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  2. This is where you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Put your phone on a plane and send it fasttrack two states over, and get someone to send it back.

    "I was speeding, dad? 1800mph you say, in the saturn?"

  3. Teens and mobile phones by RayAlmostAnonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't know what it is like elsewhere, but here in the UK: - a teen turn off their mobile phone?? I think not :-)

  4. Re:So What? by superpulpsicle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what's more embarrassing. To be caught going 100mph on the hightway or 0mph in the backseat in some empty supermarket parking lot.

  5. Lack of Parenting by nodehopper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This sounds like a perfect solution for those parents who have let the TV babysit their kids for years. They rely on content filters to monitor the kids internet usage and only gauge what the kids listen to and watch based upon the current rating system. Now they don't even have to ask where the kids are going. This sounds like another tool for un-involved, distant and lazy parents to pretend like they care about their kids, but it only sends the message that "we don't trust you". What happened to talking and communicating to kids, teaching them right from wrong and then trusting them to do the right thing.

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    "We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.