Would you lilke to keep tabs on your kids via GPRS?

[TotalControl]

Lets say you have kids between the age of 3 - 11. An age where they're not quite ready for carrying a phone around with them full time. Would you be perfectly happy to 'tag' them? Like a GPRS watch or even something simple like an NFC tag with ID on it (encrypted, of course) in the event your child goes missing and the police locate said child?

[sunbeam alpine]

Friend of mine does this via an iPhone app.

[AWRacing]

Yes

[Baryonyx]

Yes, I'd be quite happy. Dad knows best.

[MrBig]

Absolutely. I was looking at a device at the gadget show earlier in the year that did something similar.

[Moonhawk]

I think it's pretty sad. Children these days don't appear to enjoy anywhere near the freedoms their parents/grandparents etc did as children - and pretty soon, parents will be monitoring their every move too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How...

The thing is - i'm not really sure what the driving factor behind this shift in attitude. Is it really so much more dangerous for kids these days - or is it merely the parents perception of danger or their aversion to risk that has changed?

[Gargamel]

No I wouldn't

No need to satellite track children. Statistically more likely to be in an RTA with me driving...

[extraT]

It's a different world; a lot depends on where you live.

I live in Austria, in the countryside, it's as safe as houses. Everyone knows everyone and we have no worries with where our little one is. Saying that, I have discussed with SWMBO doing this when we are in London next....

[trashbat]

No, it's an outdated and low bandwidth data bearer.

If you cared about your children at all you would at least use HSPA+.

[Moonhawk]

extraT said:

It's a different world....

Is it though?

As stated above - are things truly more dangerous or is it simply that the perception of that danger and the willingness to accept risk that has changed?

Interesting article discussing this very thing:

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-are-...

Edited by Moonhawk on Sunday 28th June 22:46

[Studio117]

I think some of you need to get a fking grip.

[Moonhawk]

Gargamel said:

Statistically more likely to be in an RTA with me driving...

Yep and an interesting point to pick up on. People lament the "good ole days" - yet in 2015 you (and your kids) are between 4 and 5 times less likely to be killed on the roads than in 1970.

[tilley441]

Moonhawk said:

Is it though?

As stated above - are things truly more dangerous or is it simply that the perception of that danger and the willingness to accept risk that has changed?

i was thinking the same, is the world more dangerous or is it the same as it always has been but now we have social media etc the news/events are more accessible which leads you to think its more dangerous. there has always been pedo/extremists/murder etc only now you have the likes of Facebook/twitter and the rest of the internet to tell you the news before the tv does.

on the flip side the internet could also be accelerating the rate of these crimes due to info they can find.

BTW my little one will have a tracker in the shoe when the time comes, if i ever need to use it my shotgun will be coming with me!

[schmunk]

trashbat said:

No, it's an outdated and low bandwidth data bearer.

If you cared about your children at all you would at least use HSPA+.

I'd have to say ISWYDT.

[Some Gump]

tilley441 said:

BTW my little one will have a tracker in the shoe when the time comes, if i ever need to use it my shotgun will be coming with me!

Rediculous idea. It'll melt.

Edited by Some Gump on Monday 29th June 00:05

[anonymous-user]

Studio117 said:

I think some of you need to get a fking grip.

+1

It's absolutely fking ridiculous.

A friend of mine recently refused to entertain the idea of leaving her 4 year old son at a Marriot hotel resort Kids Club for a morning because "paedophiles get jobs like that so they can have access to children"

Everyone is just getting hysterical about what might happen to their kids, and I think as Studio said, they need to get a fking grip.

I would like to see the statistical evidence that proves kids are exposed to more danger now than in the 80's for example, when I was a kid.

[R2T2]

When I was a kid in the 90's I would be allowed out all day, providing they knew where I was. I would be 1 of 4 places, and I had to be in at a certain time.

Skate park.
Friends house
another friends house
Field playing.
riding between 1 of the 4.

It's not that I was predictable, it was that we played football in the field, cocked about in the park on the skate bit, or was out our mates houses getting fed/watered/bladders emptied or on a game of some sort.

From about 11 onwards I had a mobile, and when I was needed home, I was called.

Nowadays kids are very molly-coddled, it's a bit sad really as I live opposite a massive field, with a little off road track carved into the edge with a few ramps. You used to see kids out playing everyday in summer, now it's 5 a day, if that.

They'd rather be inside on their icrap watching tele or something.

[Faust66]

• Tin foil hat time.

Let's breed a generation of kids that are used to being constantly tracked and kept tabs on by their parents. We'll let them grow up with no real idea or concept of 'freedom' or independence. Then, when they learn to drive we'll sell 'em the idea that having a 'black box' which keeps track of their driving in their car will make things cheaper for them. Man, they're gonna lap it up.

And the best thing is that as they get older and have kids of their own, we'll be able to push even more surveillance on them and they'll accept it as a natural part of life… and when their kids grow up... ad infinitum.

• takes off tin foil hat.

Just sayin', like.

[ecs]

How do you keep track of someone with GPRS?

[Studio117]

ecs said:

How do you keep track of someone with GPRS?

slowly?