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p2p news / p2pnet:- “Here’s the story,” Illinois father Ted Schmidt told his four children, including two in college, about a year ago.
“I can tell where your phone is, what speed it’s going. … So (even) days later, I can look and see that ‘Oh my gosh, you were going 80 miles an hour on the interstate at 2 o’clock in the morning’.”
Quoted by the Associated Press, Schmidt admits he’s tracking his offspring “24/7” but says he’s convinced he’s keeping them safer, “partly because they know they’re being watched”.
But, the story goes on, “His 15-year-old son, Noah, who’s been caught a few places he wasn’t supposed to be, isn’t nearly as pleased. ‘It’s annoying,’ the high-school sophomore complains. ‘It gives the parents too much control’.”
Schmidt uses a service that tracks wireless phones and interest in this kind of operation is growing quickly in the US, says the story, “as it already has in other countries - Canada and the United Kingdom included”.
AP has Christy Buchanan, an associate professor of psychology at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, saying in general, monitoring a child is good, “But parents have to strike some balance between knowing what their kids are up to without the adolescent feeling like they’re having their every move controlled.”
Parents “shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking that they can keep their kids from making mistakes, which is part of growing up and learning,” she said.
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Associated Press - Parents use tech tools to keep tabs on kids, September 5, 2005
September 5th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
That isn’t protection anymore. Protection is when you talk to your kids about why not to use drugs and why not to drink. But when it comes to such a point it is now an invasion of privacy. I wouldn’t be too surprised that he has cameras put in their bedrooms and the bathrooms.
September 5th, 2005 at 6:46 pm
I agree. I would find that to be an invasion of privacy. I would purposely forget my phone at home. A simple call home everyonce in a while satifies my parents. Parents who track thier kids like this have obviously no confidence in the way they raised thier kids.
September 5th, 2005 at 8:53 pm
this guy will be the first in line to get his kids microchipped.
kids shouldn’t have mobile phones anyway. and why does he let his 15-year-old son drive a car?
why don’t the kids just take the battery out of their phones, or just turn the phones off and leave them at home or somewhere the dad approves of, then just go wherever they want?
September 5th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
i wonder how this Mr. Dad would feel if he found out that the govt was monitoring his every move? I’d be willing to bet that suddenly the shoe would be on the other foot.
September 5th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
Simple solution:
Turn the phone off.
I’m 32, and I keep my phone off most of the time. I only turn it on to check messages and to make a call. It also saves the battery too.
September 5th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
There’s a much better way to keep track of them. Lock them in the basement.
September 6th, 2005 at 1:43 am
Just wait til google earth goes realtime, and he can take a look at where they are and what they’re doing via satellite images.
September 6th, 2005 at 2:25 am
Then they’d only pick the lock ; )
September 6th, 2005 at 8:05 am
Just a thought:
Is this technology getting kids used to being monitored?
At a later stage father will give the right to monitor (and/or even punish) the kid to a “security” company simply because he doesn’t have the time to do it himself… and NWO will be here!
September 6th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
On some of them, you actually have to take the battery out as well to make sure the beacon stops transmitting off what’s left in the capacitors in the power supply.
On many of the phones I’ve seen, you can turn the locator beacon off, with the exception of the E911 capability.
So, kids, if you really want to have some fun with all of your Dad’s who think they are J. Edgar Hoover, all of you meet up early in the evening and swap phone, then go about your business and if you run across any of your peers later in the evening, swap again! Take the battery out of your phone, go across town and put it back in for five minutes, then take it out and return to your original location and restore the battery.
If you’re at a friend’s house and his Dad is going on a business trip on an airplane the next day, see if you can hide your phone in his briefcase or luggage. Won’t your Dad be amazed that your were travelling 550 mph on your bike!
Better yet kids, save up your money and go buy yourself your own pre-paid cell phone and leave Dad’s spy phone nestled under the pillow on your bed after you forward the calls to your own phone.
This is just ridiculous. Why not just implant RFID chips in your offspring at birth if you are that paranoid about what they are going to be going.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Parents:
Love your kids and teach them the right path to go. Spend time with your kids and focus on family instead of making lots of money. Do not surrender your kids to the state for instruction. Instruct your own kids. I know lots of kids and teenagers, and I see the difference between publically indoctrinated kids and homeschooled kids. Homeschooled kids are on average smarter, wiser, more well adjusted, listen more carefully to the instructions of parents, and usually have better moral values. I have utmost respect for the likes of Jon for homeschooling his kids. The majority of parents should follow his example. Do not force your kids to depend on others for attention and affection because the other person providing these may very well be a paedophile.
To those who instruct kids on how to overide cellphone monitoring:
I do not agree with parents having to monitor kids this way. However, until kids are strong enough and know how to defend themselves from the thousands of sickos that the government turn out to society each day, this is something that will hopefully allow parents to keep track of what is happening to kids. Telling kids to leave their phone at home or turn it off can get them into trouble with their parants because parents know when they cannot reach or track their kids. I recommend that kids travel in groups of at least 3 or 4. I also recommend that these kids have the means to record the automobile license plate of anyone unknown to them that stops to talk to them (This especially includes people who claim to be police officers who are driving unmarked cars).
College offspring:
Be careful out there. If you go to a party and eat or drink at the party, do not let your food or drink out of your sight if you are around paople you do not know well. Date rape drugs in someones’ drink is an easy way to ensure that a sicko will have his way with a girl. If you have overbearing parents, then a second prepaid phone is a good thing to have. Just take the spy phone and set it to forward calls to the prepaid phone (that is my only advice on how to circumvent spying).
September 7th, 2005 at 8:39 am
To all the people who suggest buying another phone: as soon as Spying Dad knows the number you’re just as screwed (as far as I know there is know way for the owner to prevent such systems being used to track a phone)
September 12th, 2005 at 11:41 am
Tacking mobile phones in this way is crap, it encorages the people being tacked to lie as I would if I new I was being tracked in this way. The dad wants to get a life, and have a little trust, what happends one day when the kid needs the phone for an emergency but has left it at home because he knows its being tracked.