Comments on: Digital Privacy: Knock 3rd party cellphone tracking on the head NOW http://www.runningwithbulls.com/blog/2006/04/07/digital-privacy-knock-3rd-party-cellphone-tracking-on-the-head-now/ RunningWithBulls .com The curse of Sanfermin Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: JD http://www.runningwithbulls.com/blog/2006/04/07/digital-privacy-knock-3rd-party-cellphone-tracking-on-the-head-now/#comment-2208 JD Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:01:02 +0000 http://www.runningwithbulls.com/blog/2006/04/07/digital-privacy-knock-3rd-party-cellphone-tracking-on-the-head-now/#comment-2208 > 1. Simple question, but why can the parent not just telephone the teenager/child? Teenagers Lie, with the magic of cellular phones you can in fact be in one location and say you are in another. cool huh! > 4. “Using a password supplied by the security company, a parent will be able to log on to a website and find their child’s phone on a map to within metres of the phone’s location.� It is no less secure then any of the other password based services. It is as good as your password. Education about good passwords is a better idea instead of some half assed privacy concern / rant. > 5. “Any such surveillance service would require the parents to inform the child that they were to be monitored.� > And what if the child said no? Children are under their parents care until they are 18. They don't have the option of saying no. > 6. “However, unlike the regular parental text message or phone calls, the child will not know when or how often a parent checks their whereabouts.� It is no worse than a parent who following their child which happens alot. With everything that happens in the world piece of mind with regards to where a child is is not a bad thing > Well done Digital Rights Ireland. Well done for what? Your post isn't very coherent but from what I understand from you and from DRI all they did was write a letter expressing their concern. I dont think that warrants praise, Preventing it would have > 1. Simple question, but why can the parent not just telephone the teenager/child?

Teenagers Lie, with the magic of cellular phones you can in fact be in one location and say you are in another. cool huh!

> 4. “Using a password supplied by the security company, a parent will be able to log on to a website and find their child’s phone on a map to within metres of the phone’s location.�

It is no less secure then any of the other password based services. It is as good as your password. Education about good passwords is a better idea instead of some half assed privacy concern / rant.

> 5. “Any such surveillance service would require the parents to inform the child that they were to be monitored.�
> And what if the child said no?

Children are under their parents care until they are 18. They don’t have the option of saying no.

> 6. “However, unlike the regular parental text message or phone calls, the child will not know when or how often a parent checks their whereabouts.�

It is no worse than a parent who following their child which happens alot. With everything that happens in the world piece of mind with regards to where a child is is not a bad thing

> Well done Digital Rights Ireland.

Well done for what? Your post isn’t very coherent but from what I understand from you and from DRI all they did was write a letter expressing their concern. I dont think that warrants praise, Preventing it would have

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