| A great deal of people are very concerned about | | | | you switch on the tracking options of a GPS |
| privacy and security irregularities regarding GPS | | | | enabled mobile phone so that you or your child |
| auto navigation systems. This does not only | | | | can be found if lost or injured or are you |
| affect your in-car sat nav, but also portable units | | | | frightened that that information could be misused |
| such as your cell phone. | | | | by a criminal of some sort - a kidnapper or a |
| These days the majority of people can be traced | | | | paedophile? |
| one way or another, whether it be by their | | | | None of us actually knows what our governments |
| mobile phone, their GPS auto navigation system | | | | are up to or capable of, but we are being wound |
| or an RFID tag that was sewn into a shirt they | | | | up by films and books about the widespread |
| bought last month at a supermarket. | | | | invasion of our privacy and what clever people |
| Some people do not care about this state of | | | | can do with the data that is floating around us in |
| affairs, some deplore it, but most people are not | | | | the ether. |
| even conscious of it. It is difficult to avoid being | | | | In reality, we have all given up a great deal of the |
| tracked. It is often said that anyone walking | | | | privacy that our grandparents took for granted, |
| around London carrying out his or her routine daily | | | | but the perceived dangers to society are greater |
| life these days, appears on a closed circuit TV | | | | these days, although 9/11 could have happened to |
| screen about 300 times every day. | | | | the Empire State Building 80 years ago and |
| However, there are benefits. If I was being | | | | anthrax could have been released on London or |
| attacked in London, I would hope that someone | | | | New York 100 years ago. People do not need high |
| could see me on a screen and send the police or | | | | technology to carry out atrocities. Look at World |
| if I was mountain climbing and I fell and broke my | | | | War One or Rwanda. |
| leg, I would be pleased that the rescue personnel | | | | GPS and auto navigation systems are good things. |
| could track me because I was using a GPS | | | | They help you remain aware of where your dear |
| enabled cell phone. | | | | ones are and give you the peace of mind that if |
| Luckily, there are quite strict laws in place in most | | | | they get into trouble they will have a better |
| Western countries restricting what can be done | | | | chance of getting out of it. |
| with the intelligence gathered from GPS auto | | | | The information gathered by these GPS auto |
| navigation systems. The issue is that everyone | | | | navigation systems can be used in the wrong |
| believes that governments break the law and can | | | | way, that is indisputable, but at the moment it |
| change them to suit themselves whenever they | | | | probably is not. However, employing GPS auto |
| want. No-one trusts politicians. Not even politicians. | | | | navigation systems can help keep you and your |
| This creates a huge dilemma for a great deal of | | | | family safe. |
| people and especially parents of young children. Do | | | | |