Community weekly poll: If the technology existed to track your movements...
- 12/12/06 3:49 PM
If the technology existed to track your movements...
by Marc Bennett - 12/12/06 3:49 PM
If the technology existed to track your movements around the globe, what would your biggest concern be?
privacy
battery life/power source
reliability
cost
other
Seniors
by sencis2105 - 12/12/06 7:38 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
My concern would be for seniors. Tracking their lack of movement would make them prime targets for tracking by the wrong people. They would be sitting ducks and the most vulnerable cell users.
Emergency tracker
by mike91 - 12/12/06 8:20 PM In reply to: Seniors by sencis2105My concern other than the cost of cellphone would be reliability.
It is a great addition to any cellphone if it can be counted on
to locate a person in Emergency situations.
Privacy would be my second concern, I know if you are innocent you'v
got nothing to worry about,....as long as Big brother knows every word
you say. Lets face-it,...there are real bad guys out there since the
Oaklahoma Mura building and the second Bombing of the trade towers.If
it can locate the bad guys ...what's wrong with that.Heck if they want
to listen to my rambellings it's ok with me.Just remember,not to say
anything incriminating...and yar good to go...Got-it!!
Just because...
by BlazeEagle - 12/12/06 9:35 PM In reply to: Emergency tracker by mike91someone wants privacy doesn't automatically make them a criminal or a terrorist!
Zero privacy equals ZERO freedom! The terrorist attacks have already succeeded in a way since some are willing to give up freedoms our fore Father's DIED to protect!
Privacy and freedom
by achelengar - 12/13/06 9:37 AM In reply to: Just because... by BlazeEagleI have news for you people who think that you have any privacy and freedom left. Each time that we vote for one incompetent representative just because they have enough money to spend on advertisements we give our privacy away on a silver platter. Also each time we let the big companies to tell us what it is that we are interested in so much that some people are willing to kill for it we give our freedom away. It does not matter how many people die everyday to preserve this freedom and privacy.
seniors
by darguza - 12/13/06 8:21 AM In reply to: Seniors by sencis2105Lee, I'm hoping your concern for seniors was done in humor. My fear would be the misuse and abuse by the government.
Privacy Privacy Privacy
by TrackStar1682 - 12/12/06 8:13 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
Big Brother is watching you!
'nuff said!
Amended response
by TrackStar1682 - 12/12/06 9:41 PM In reply to: Privacy Privacy Privacy by TrackStar1682My response is pretty much the same except one big exception.
Make the technology such that it must be user activated. I was originally thinking I'd be 100% against this, but on second thought, there needs to be a type of 'hazard' switch that can be activated in the event of distress or emergency.
Turn it off or on
by Kati - 12/13/06 11:14 AM In reply to: Amended response by TrackStar1682Maybe I am a bit parinoid but how would we know if it really turrns off?
Privacy
by rickowensis - 12/13/06 12:02 PM In reply to: Turn it off or on by KatiMy thoughts exactly. To think I'm being "tracked" is a bit too "1984" for me. Remember, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!!!
Privacy should be our #1 concern. Realistically, private citizens have very little privacy left anyway. Retailers are intent upon inserting tracking widgets (RFID's?) into their products already. Pretty spooky. Municipalities are installing video cameras everywhere now to "protect" us. Of course,video cameras used judiciously are of tremendous benefit. This benefit comes with the risk of being spied upon constantly. We can become lulled by a false sense of security and become complacent to these constant erosions of our privacy. This insidious removal of our hard-fought freedoms and the right to privacy is quite threatening. Sadly, but predictably, this attack is coming from our own government as our freedoms and rights wither under the fear of hyperbole, political correctness and courts which interpret the law rather than uphold it.
Know there is a good idea.
by notoftherightmind - 12/14/06 6:22 PM In reply to: Amended response by TrackStar1682The idea of a hazard or emergence button is a good idea, but know tracking devices.
Technology tracking your movements
by mandrewwhiteman - 12/12/06 8:23 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
We don't need big brother! I used to work for a large company that was talking about puting a chip on our ID cards to track us around the building. It obviously wasn't just for tracking around the building. I always carried my badge in the car so I wouldn't forget it, so my response was, "If that is what they want to do, when I get home, that badge gets left at home. They are not going to track where I go."
no good can come of this
by Falconias - 12/12/06 9:02 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
Ok, well that may be an overstatement. Being able to activate a tracking device in a cell phone in a potentially life threatening situation wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But I'm not a fan of anyone listening to my cell phone conversations or knowing exactly where I go and when... Its not a matter of whether what I'm doing is legal or illegal. Most likely I'm not plotting to overthrow the government. I just happen to think that a private conversation between me and someone else is just that: private. And as for where I go and how pathetically much time I sit in front of a computer, its not the government or anyone else's business. In addition I really don't want to see big business getting hold of the technology and starting to target advertising at me depending on where I've been. I get enough ads already.
tracking
by hyakka - 12/12/06 9:15 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
Gosh, we can be tracked to some exent now. Privacy doesn't worry me for two reasons:Firstly, what can be an issue? That your using the washing facilities!!!! come on whats the big deal (i'm sure most people are not hiding); Secondly, who has got the time to monitor the tracking of everybody.
Now I can see it has some tremendous advantages: besides not getting lost or your kids lost, there is the advantage of being able to be located in an emergency. Of course if your 007 or similar or have criminal intent there maybe a problem.
Your response assumes benign government/authority
by scottbeck - 12/13/06 1:41 AM In reply to: tracking by hyakkaLike so many good, law abiding people you assume you have nothing to fear from sacrificing privacy because you are, precisely, good and law abiding. There are two things I suggest you think about...
- what is the definition of "good and law abiding"? For example - imagine you wished, with what you saw as good cause, to protest about a proposed law - for example the recent attempt to pass a law that would have allowed AT&T etc to control internet access. Imagine that the tracking technologies were in use (they exist already!) and so the police were able to use them to monitor and thus control the assembling of protesters in, let's say, Washington. Would you now consider that your privacy and and freedom were not being violated?
- how would Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, the CIA during the anti-Vietnam era, maybe now during what could become the anti-Iraq war era, or to make and anachronistic example, the British during the War of independence - have taken advantage of such things?
My point is that the best way to prevent abuse of power, authority and the tools of repression is to make sure they are never put in place. To stand a common argument on its head - a government that has no malign intent is losing nothing by not having them, so it can manage without. That may mean we all live with some risk, but I for one will happily trade that risk for the alternatives - particularly since history shows them to more common that most realise!
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