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It's the latest implementation of satellite-based
navigation into everyday life - technology that can be found in
everything from cell phones that help keep kids away from sexual
predators to fitness watches that track heart rate and distance. Shoes
aren't as easy to lose, unlike phones, watches and bracelets.
The
sneakers work when the wearer presses a button on the shoe to activate
the GPS. A wireless alert detailing the location is sent to a 24-hour
monitoring service that costs an additional $19.95 a month.
You know I have friends that have put devices under the skin of their children to protect just in case they are kidnapped - these seem harmless and if I was not a stay at home mother (I work from home) I might think about something like this. But currently I know exactly where my girls are.....
Isn't that kinda like the stuff they put on dogs and cats? Hmmm sounds a little too extreme
I'm not a parent, but if I were I'd be saying "shoes maybe, but implants under the skin, no"
Theres the potential there for the same problem as when they trialled RFID tags on money - the criminals could use the same tracking equipment to find out who had the most money and was the best target to rob. Except instead of money, its a child
It's a tough one. There are lots of examples of products that can be used for good and bad. Butter knives for example..... I tend to err towards the side of good when it comes to this, except in the case of weapons of mass defence. I'm not saying RFID chips or GPS under the skin is the same as the nuclear arms race, but it's a similar dilema that super-king has raised.
When I first found out my friends had done this I couldn't believe it, but in the LA crowd with all that goes on there I guess they felt it necessary - there is alot that goes with it as well - insuarance stuff just all kinds of things. Shoes are so much less thought provoking after knowing people who do the chip.
I do think that chipping your kid is going too far.... honestly, where are you sending em to need to chip em?
Think the chips under the skin ... and having them 'chipped' is way to scary. Do quite like the idea of the shoes though.
The shoes could be useful as a tool.... say if they were going on a day trip or camping or something
But then, isn't there a stage when you teach your kid some responsibility? I'm afraid that this technology might take over the need/application of common sense
I hate to say it but some children don't have common sense. Not that I am for chpping - it is an extreme measure.
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There are some studies that say that chip implants might to lead some forms of malignant cancer!!! Of course...everything causes cancer nowadays, but really, when you have a foreign object in your body that is constantly emitted energy on some wavelength, it stands to reason your body would just hate it
Pacemakers, stents, artificial joints, hypoallergenic earnings and body piercings etc. etc., I don't know about the studies you refer to edythemighty, but there are ways to minimize the risk (your body is subjected to fairly massive amounts of cosmic ray impacts 24 hours a day - living in Denver is more risky than living at sea level, and pilots and flight crews have even greater exposure and more risk to some kinds of cancer - and the radiation in these cases would be far greater than the risk from a low power transmitting device....however, just because it can be done doesn't mean it should.....I think a bracelet can be made that isn't "easy to lose" at least while wearing if a parent feels they absolutely must have the ability to track their kids....
You raise valid points
Pacemakers were very dangerous when they were first being developed, but as the science in it advanced, they have become pretty safe and common place, and aside from a few problems, like radiation from your microwave messing with your pacemakers, powerful magnets causing pain to people with artificial joints or some implants made from metal, aside from all that, these are genuine advances. My point was more or less what you were trying to make, that there are other ways such as the shoes depicted here, or a hard-to-loose bracelet. Of course, they'd have to look like something else, it should look as nondescript as possible.
