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Let Goofy Track Your Children

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the parenting-is-hard dept.

Rio writes "The Walt Disney Company unveiled a new wireless phone service that allows parents to track their children on a map using Global Positioning System technology, according to Local 6 News. The new "family friendly" service, called Disney Mobile, allows parents to decide who their children can call and when, the report said. The phone service will launch in June and has not been priced yet."

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  1. not sure about this... by zuki · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know why, but reading this gives me a funny feeling that this type of technology could be easily perverted for some nasty stuff it wasn't meant for at all.

    Nothing in particular, but the concept of this thing sounds a bit....twisted.

    Time will tell.

    Z.

    1. Re:not sure about this... by Kangburra · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yep, parents PC is stolen and Mr Perv can track the kids until someone changes the password.

      I hope the GPS can be turned off at the handset, like parental override.

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  2. Hate to be the bearer of bad news... by dooms13 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How long until the government ruins this and starts tracking all of us based on our cell phones?


    Oh wait, they probably already do...
    Beware...

  3. Re:In summary... by noidentity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or get the previous generation comfortable with thinking they're tracking the next generation, all the while the next generation is laughing at how idiotic the previous generation is, both for attempting to track them and making it so easy to avoid.

  4. Re:coming next by jftitan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But what prevents them from being shocked to death if they are kidnapped?

    Really, if I had this so called 'implant', and I were kidnapped, then leave the safe zone... would this shocking stick keep shocking me if I stayed out of the 'safe zone'?

    But then, if I were kidnapped then I would rather be dead.

    (mind you I am drunk at this hour)

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  5. The execution will need to be done carefully... by wiryd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it gets hacked so that anyone can track the kids carrying these, it would be a child molesters dream come true, wouldn't it? Sure you can argue that all phones technically could be tracked but how many of you think Paris Hilton would be waving one of these around? The target audience that will be holding them will be kids so the demographic work for the hacker has been taken care of.

    I for one have a handful of very young siblings that I wouldn't want this to happen to. If my parents ever get one for them, I will smash them.

  6. Obvious problem... by emptycorp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So once a pedophile learns to hack this technology, the child abduction rate climbs exponentially...

  7. Re:This is a great idea... for something else by HansF · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Basicly you can do this without a gps.
    Mount a covert muted cellphone in your car, and when it's stolen ask the police to contact your cell service provider to trace the phone.
    There was a howto the net somewhere regarding this topic, but I can't seem to find the link.

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