These kind of phones are already quite common in Japan. They're really aimed at parents so they can see at a glance where their kids are. You can set an alarm on them too so you're alerted if your kids move out of a pre-determined area. Of course, you have to enable the GPS tracking in the child's handset and pair it to the parents' first - in other words it's off by default.
> Yes, but when the only people carrying passports with RFID chips are Americans and somebody walks past that makes your RFID scanner go off, what country do you think they're from?
The US is not the only country with RFID passports. Personally, as a blue-eyed caucasion with mousey hair and a strong southern British accent, I'm glad that my Japanese passport has an embedded chip with my likeness in it. It makes the immigration authorities that less likely to suspect something is amiss!
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These kind of phones are already quite common in Japan. They're really aimed at parents so they can see at a glance where their kids are. You can set an alarm on them too so you're alerted if your kids move out of a pre-determined area. Of course, you have to enable the GPS tracking in the child's handset and pair it to the parents' first - in other words it's off by default.
> Yes, but when the only people carrying passports with RFID chips are Americans and somebody walks past that makes your RFID scanner go off, what country do you think they're from? The US is not the only country with RFID passports. Personally, as a blue-eyed caucasion with mousey hair and a strong southern British accent, I'm glad that my Japanese passport has an embedded chip with my likeness in it. It makes the immigration authorities that less likely to suspect something is amiss!