Verizon to Launch Mobile 'Chaperone' Service

Billosaur writes "CNET is reporting that Verizon will soon be offering a service (branded "Chaperone") which will allow parents to keep track of their cell phone-carrying children. Following on the heels of a similar service started by Sprint in April, the system will allow parents 'to set up geographic limits and receive text alerts if their children, who also carry phones, go too far from home. The service also lets parents check where their offspring are via a map on their cell phone or computer.' Disney will purportedly be offering a similar service when it begins selling mobile phones sometime this summer. It's 10pm -- do you know where you child's cell phone is?"

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Monitoring Children

[Anonymous Coward]

You are a country of in-effectual neurotics, and have skant idea
how to deal with the problems you have, at any level.

First you must QUICKLY, identify, prosecute, sentance and kill the
psychotics within your community, who would harm children.

Then you need to give the children their childhood back; here, in Switzerland,
5-16 walk, skate, ski ... to and from school, play and enjoy the beautiful
countryside. They know what their legs are for.