Annotated Literature Review: GPS Tracking

5 Ways You Give The Government Control” written by Kenneth Coats shows how the devices we use daily slowly take over individuals lives. Coats states, “Today, most people in the United States carry a mobile phone that accompanies them wherever they go. We use them for everything...This essentially makes them the perfect tracking and bugging devices”. Although electronic devices are known to be safe, they allow outside people to figure out individuals personal life. Due to the need for devices such as cell phones, each individual has a high chance of being socially stalked once in their lifetime. Coats then states, “Not only do intelligence agencies gather information via mobile companies, but… your phone can be hacked using spyware. Even if your phone is turned off, it can be remotely accessed to recorded conversations and take photographs”. This issue causes a panic due to the wide spread of inappropriate pictures and private conversations in one's life. Even though technology is viewed as a privileged, it is also taking away people's lives without their

The strict surveillance of citizens as seen in Orwell’s novel, 1984, is similar to the government involvement in today’s smart devices due to their advanced technical abilities.

Everyday technology is advancing and has become part of people’s everyday life, from phones, cars, computers, and even the light switches in a room. With all this technology, it would be easy to use it for other things then what they were intended for. For example what if someone wanted to control what another person could do such as sleeping or going places. It would not not be that hard to try and control another human being, or even worse being watched every single moment of everyday for the rest of their life. That idea is not as farfetched as it may seem now with even more phones, computers, televisions and cameras in general. Technology is taking humanity nearer and nearer to world of Big Brother and the worse part is that if they are not careful, Big Brother could raise without any citizen ever knowing.

Stereotypical parents are known to be overprotective towards their younglings. All parents are concerned about their teens, yet some parents tend to go overboard. Parents need to learn when to monitor and when it is too much. In the article “The Undercover Parent” (2008), Harlan Coben proposes that parents should use spyware to supervise their teens. Coben argues that parents should supervise their teens because adolescents are secretive when it comes to having their own privacy, which makes parents oblivious toward their actions. However, at the same time parents should consider to keep their teens aware of their surveilling. Ellen Goodman’s article “Big Brother Meets Big Mother” (2007) on the other hand, criticizes that parents who monitor

My proposal is a micro chip implanted into our forearm. The first step will be to appoint many government employees and scientists to prepare all the chips for each individual person that is a U.S citizen. Once the chips are available they will be sent to every U.S. hospital. After the chips have arrived every person in America, that is eligible, will get an email at what hospital they need to pick up theirs. Shortly after the already existing humans get their chips, the employees that were distributing them will set up shop at the hospital for the upcoming newborns. As soon as those suckers pop out and are washed up, the chip will be inserted. Once everyone is chipped another form will be emailed about the upcoming

Government surveillance in the past was not a big threat due to the limitations on technology; however, in the current day, it has become an immense power for the government. Taylor, author of a book on Electronic Surveillance supports, "A generation ago, when records were tucked away on paper in manila folders, there was some assurance that such information wouldn 't be spread everywhere. Now, however, our life stories are available at the push of a button" (Taylor 111). With more and more Americans logging into social media cites and using text-messaging devices, the more providers of metadata the government has. In her journal “The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit”, Anita L. Allen, an expert on privacy law, writes, “Contemporary technologies of data collection make secret, privacy invading surveillance easy and nearly irresistible. For every technology of confidential personal communication…there are one or more counter-technologies of eavesdropping” (Allen 1). Being in the middle of the Digital Age, we have to be much more careful of the kinds of information we put in our digital devices.

No longer do we live in an age where families socialize with one another face to face on a consistent basis with absolute privacy. In today’s society, technology has consumed most of our time leaving us zombified staring deep into the soul of a screen of some sort. In fact, you are doing just exactly that at this very moment. Privacy is no longer existent because little do people know, the screens they are staring into are staring right back. Our advancement in technology has without a doubt moved us a couple steps towards the world of Big Brother in the book 1984. However, we are still very distinct in the way in which we govern and use the data collected from our technology. .

Harlan Coben’s newspaper editorial, “The Undercover Parent” (16 March 2008), claims parents should monitor their child’s usage on the internet and talk to the child about it to give them trust and respect. Coben intends to reach out to the loving parents and their children about monitoring and the reasons to do so. Coben did research on the spyware program, and he found out that the program tracks every keystroke that a person does. This program helps assist parents with protecting their children from risky sites and dangers. He initiates that monitoring their teenagers is not like the government where they are secretly have an eye on everything the child does, but this is more of the loving and caring family that wants to protect him or

This can be linked back to the telescreens in 1984, and how the telescreens are always monitoring everyone at all times, microchips, when programed correctly, can perform the same task. Microchipping in this specific article is talking about how it would allow someone get into buildings, log onto computers, and buy snacks.

In today’s society we can easily notice that wherever we go technology influences us more than we think. We all can agree that almost everyone in this country uses and owns an electronic device, even children who are four or five years old. We have allowed and helped accelerate the advancement of the technology we have today, which leads us to a fear of uncertainty with the future use of technology. After reading the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four we question if the rapid advancement of technology would or will lead us to a Big Brother (BB) society. One should consider the background on how technology can point us towards that direction, compare BB technology with the technology we have now, and what we can do to prevent or stop

" That proves just how powerful modern technology is to be able to allow parents to do all of those things whenever they want. Although many people believe that parents should be able to track their kids all the time, I believe that parents should be able to track their kids once in a while, but not to a completely absurd extent. My reasons for this opinion are the following: If kids are tracked too much they will get annoyed and learn how to get around them without even trying, if kids are tracked all the time then parents and their child will never truly build a strong bond of trust between each other, and if parents do not take a hiatus from tracking and listening to their child, then there may be a big privacy issue that may evolve from that inability to take a break. Avoiding Firewalls

I had a microchip in my left wrist. It always felt foreign to me, the dull throbbing pain. I should have been concerned that a technological square was imbedded in my skin. I wasn’t worried though, I knew it was a requirement of the experiment. The Ikaria Experiment was originally a breakthrough for scientists in the field of cloning that occurred about 200 years ago, but it wasn’t widespread. The group of scientists who made the breakthrough decided not to share it with the general public in fear of being oppressed by other scientists.

There have been many attempts at hacking computer systems to top secured system of the FBI to smartphones. Parents say they’re worried about their child’s life and that is why they agree with schools putting trackers in students’ ID’s but in fact it makes them an easier target to

Some questions that everyone must ask about the microchip implants is, how will this technology be implemented? Will it be mandatory or a choice? Who will be in control of the device? And is it a medically sound device? The answer to the first question is a two part answer the first part being that the RFID chip is not a new concept the implementation of this device has already begun. People should be made aware that for a number of years now they have been getting the public acclimated to the idea of the microchip implants in ways such as offering them as a means to track lost pets and wandering livestock so first and foremost the primary use of the device is to track. They have since moved on to other means of utilizing the chip, they are now slowly rolling out credit and debit cards that contain the RFID chip technology, which controls the access to your funds so as said before the concept is not new it has been a work in progress.

Improvements in technology has allowed many individuals to thrive and connect with the world. In some cases, it is utilized as a tool to track and map events, occurrences, and even individuals. One type of technology that is commonly used today among law enforcement is the global positioning system also known as GPS. Using GPS monitoring is an important tool that correction officers use for individuals that are either on parole or house arrest. The tracking device is essential to not only maintaining the location of the certain people in question, but it also assists in monitoring the behavior and social interactions of the offender(s) on a daily basis. Electronic monitoring is an alternative form of punishment instead of going to jail.