Parents Need to Beware of Raising Children with no Sense of Privacy
Commercially available technology may make today's youth the most traceable in U.S. history. Between cellphone GPS and RFID technology children growing up in the United States may have not place called private. The fear of violent crime against children is the reason that marketers are using successfully to persuade parents, educators and law enforcement to invest in these gadgets. Parents should know where their children are, but that knowledge should not extend to the state. The technology's broad adoption may not be a guarantee that all children will be safe, but it sure will change the attitudes of these future adults on what is and is not appropriate privacy.
Children's Privacy Requires Special Handling, Computerworld, December 21, 2004
