Monday, September 24, 2012
Location Tracking
I believe that implanting chips into children is wrong. Even though the parents benefit because they will know where there child is at all times, I believe that the risk of strangers being able to track the children outweighs the benefit the parents have. I think that if the child has the GPS in their cell phone the parents should not get the chips because the GPS in the cell phone is efficient and safe. I believe that parents have the right to decide what they want for their child but I believe that putting a chip in the child's body is going to endanger the child. If I had to decide whether to implant a chip into a young child or a teenager I would most likely choose the young child. I would not put a chip in my child in the first place but if I had to choose I would choose the young child because they do not have a cell phone and are too young to know their surroundings so if anything ever happened to them they would have nobody to help them find there way back to their parents. Teenagers on the other hand have cells phones and as they grow older they will get their licenses. Although teenagers are more likely to get into trouble I think that teens should be old enough to make mature decisions and it is an invasion of privacy if their parents have access to their every move. If there was a bill in Congress to require ID chips in children under the age of five I would not support it. I would not support this bill because as previously stated I believe that putting a chip into a child is endangering the child more than it is helping the child. I think that it is unsafe to have children undergo that procedure because you will never know who has access to the chip information and can see where your child is at all times. On the other hand I would be more likely to support senior citizens suffering from Alzheimer's because they are older and are less likely to have people watching them but they are also more likely to get themselves lost and they have no way of remembering any key information such as their name, their address, their phone number etc. Overall I do not support the idea of having chips put into humans because there are other approaches such as the GPS shoes that can be used to track people but also can be taken off and are not inside of you forever. In the future technology may produce a chip for humans that will not allow access to anyone other than family but as of right now I do not support the procedure of chips being put into the human body.
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I agree with you in that putting a tracking device on a person could lead to more danger with anyone being able to find where they are. Would everyone have the access to find anyone that they wanted to was the question that I imposed in my blog. If it is made so that only certain people can track you, then I think the benefits of having a tracking device are pretty good. I think if the devices are made so that they cause more safety than not, then they are a good thing. If they are just going to cause more problems then I totally agree that they should not be used.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really think about how if these chips are implanted, strangers could possibly be tracking whoever the chip was implanted in. I think that's a really good point and if there's no way to control who can track them, then it's not a good idea. If there is a definite way to make sure that only parents or selected people can track the chip then I think it's okay.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point about how strangers could use the GPS device to track the children as well as the parents. I hadn't thought of that before. Maybe the benefits of knowing where your child is are outweighed by the risks posed by strangers.
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