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Surveillance Culture Brought To the Masses, Courtesy of Verizon (consumerist.com)
kheldan writes: Verizon is now offering a way to secretly track your family members' whereabouts and driving habits with your smartphone: "Do you have a teen driver in your household and want to know every time they get a little overzealous with the accelerator? Or maybe you're pretty sure your spouse's frequent trips to 'the office' are not so innocent? If so, then an upcoming update for Verizon's 'hum' in-car smart device might be just what you're looking for.' The new 'features' added will allow you to receive alerts if the target vehicle leaves a predetermined area, drives faster than a preset level, its location, and keeps a history of all the above for later review.
I guess I won't need the radio tracking collars I was going to order.
In the USA, we like stuff watered down, like beer, television, and freedom.
From talking to many of my co-workers who have teenage children, apparently no, you don't really want to know. You think you want to know, but if you knew better, you'd rather be ignorant of that. This comes from one co-worker expressing interest in something like this and everybody chiming in that he really didn't want to know and how ignorance really was bliss.
One for the wife, one for the GF!
the kids who shoot up schools are the loners who never get the car and don't have friends. the kids in cars will be the ones having all the sex
Of course not, don't be silly! Thanks to this verizon app, I'll be able to supervise them at all times!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.