Fortunately for most people reading this, GPS child tracking technology didn’t exist when we were kids. For generations, parents just had to suffer through “wondering child syndrome” and teenagers breaking curfew. Although devices such as the Amber Alert GPS 2G and Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker offer today’s parents piece of mind, they’re in no [...]
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Tags: Amber Alert, GPS, Little Buddy, Pikavu, tracking 
3 Comments »There are just some things about which you can’t be too paranoid. Who’s watching me? How safe is my data? Where are my kids? While each concern has validity, none but the latter strikes more deeply into the gut of a parent. Anyone familiar with kids understands their tendency to wander. It’s natural for young children to [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Emerging Technology, GPS, Real Time Tracking, Technology Tags: Best Buy, GPS, Insignia, Little Buddy, tracking 1 Comment »Well here’s a interesting demonstration from some folks at the Georgia Institute of Technology (see the video below). While the students working on this may have earned an “A”, privacy advocates will surely prefer to see them fail. Claiming that they can overlay real time, dynamic details on Google Maps, the researchers are essentially ramping [...]
Posted in Emerging Technology, Google, Internet, Real Time Tracking, Technology Tags: Google, GPS, maps, spy, tracking 4 Comments »
