Cell Phones and Privacy

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This paper contends that the use of the global positioning system technology, as a way for parents to follow the movements of their children, is an invasion of privacy and essentially is a tool for spying. The paper highlights the harm caused by the parental use of tracking technology. The paper asserts that cell phones are not always reliable in terms of their coverage anyway and also points out that a child can simply turn the phone off and thereby cut off the parental observational abilities.

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"There is already plenty of evidence that citizens are slowly but surely losing privacy; the federal government simply taps phones when it wants to and uses the justification that it is fighting terrorism; bank accounts are also subject to government snooping in the name of the war on terror; and just about every public building and retail store and parking lot has camera trained on all who pass by or enter. This society is now being watched, monitored, observed and recorded at levels that are unprecedented. It's time to take a close look at our privacy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Koerner, Brendan I. (2003) Your Cellphone is a Homing Device. Legal Affairs. Retrieved April27, 2007, from http://www.legalaffairs.org/printerfriendly.msp?id=414.
• Public Broadcast Service. (2007). GPS Technology Helps Parents Track Teens. Retrieved April27, 2007, from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra.
• Richtel, Matt. (2006). Selling Surveillance to Anxious Parents. The New York Times. RetrievedApril 27, 2007, from http://www.nytimes.com.

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