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Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices

Posted by timothy on from the girl-who-kicked-the-reflective-vest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A daycare center in Sweden is testing a new system for that will prevent missing children by placing GPS tracking devices on kids while they are outside of the confines of the nursery walls. The transmitters will report to a synced mobile phone, alarming teachers if a child moves out of a certain distance. The tracking devices clip easily to reflective vests that the children of the Malmoe daycare wear when outside of the school."

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  1. Link is to a ad-heavy scraper site by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article link is to a scraper site that runs most of the major ad networks, from Amazon to DoubleClick to Fox. Slashdot's "editors" have been had. Again.

    The article was scraped from Physorg, which scraped it from Google News, which obtained it from Agence France-Presse.

    This is a commercial product called "ChildChecker", from Purple Scout.