GPS vehicle tracking helps police find stolen car September 11, 2006
Posted by Rich in : GPS vehicle tracking , add a commentHere’s a story about how GPS vehicle tracking helped police in Charlotte, NC find a stolen car:
Police used Global Positioning System (GPS) technology overnight to find a stolen vehicle.
The suspect or suspects remain at large, however.
Police were contacted overnight and told that someone had stolen a Cadillac Escalade. When officers were told that the vehicle had the On-Star security system, they used the GPS technology to find the vehicle.
That set off a pursuit, and police finally found the vehicle, abandoned, on Eagles Landing Drive, off Freedom Drive in west Charlotte. The suspect or suspects had escaped, however.
Police called in their K-9 dog search team but were not able to locate the thief or thieves.
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GPS tracking teens by cellphone September 10, 2006
Posted by Rich in : GPS tracking cell phones, GPS tracking children , add a commentHere’s an article in the Lawrence Journal-World about GPS tracking of teens by cellphone. The article begins:
Nat Caron, like more than half of today’s teens, carries a cell phone.
The 15-year-old keeps a tiny, silver phone in his pocket to keep in touch with friends. But he’d gladly give up the device if he knew his parents could use it to track where he was at every second.
“That’s creepy,” he says. “We should have freedom.”
With Global Positioning System technology booming around the world, several cell phone companies have begun offering services that allow parents to locate their children’s cell phone locations through their own cell phones or by logging onto a Web site.
Depending on who you are, the technology might be a safety feature and way to keep your family connected, or an invasion of privacy designed to control children.
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