Sprint Users Can Track Children Via GPS

[pisshead]

i know people who still think our phones aren't gps devices...nothing convinces them.

Sprint Users Can Track Children Via GPS
DAVID TWIDDY/ AP | April 13 2006
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Up until now, parents had to deal with a separate company or buy special equipment to track their children through their cell phones. Sprint Nextel Corp. becomes the first U.S. wireless provider to sell its own product when the Family Locator Service rolls out Thursday.
Using the Global Positioning System, the service allows parents to track up to four cell phones over the Internet or on their own wireless device. Parents can periodically ask the service to find the child's phone, displaying the location on a road map.
Parents can also set alerts, automatically warning the parent if the child isn't at a certain place, such as school or soccer practice, at a specific time.
The child's phone also displays a text message, letting the child know they've been searched for and found.
The software, provided through WaveMarket Inc. for $9.99 per month, can be downloaded on 17 existing phones and can locate 28 GPS-enabled models.
Sprint officials insist their service isn't a "Big Brother" tool.
"It's not about tracking. It's not about monitoring," said Dan Gilmartin, Sprint's marketing manager for location-based services. "It's about giving parents and caregivers peace of mind that they're able to find their children's location."
He added that the service could let adults keep track of elderly parents.
The demand for child-locating products is heating up, with several third-party providers, such as Wherify and Teen Arrive Alive, already selling location services.
Last week, CATS Communication Inc. said it was releasing a service to warn parents if their child goes near the home of a registered sex offender, and The Walt Disney Co. is targeting children this summer with a GPS-enabled phone that includes a locating feature.

pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on 04-13-2006. Sprint Users Can Track Children Via GPS i know people who still think our phones aren't gps devices...nothing convinces them. Sprint Users Can Track Children Via GPS DAVID TWIDDY/ AP | April 13 2006 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Up until now, parents had to deal with a separate company or buy special equipment to track their children through their cell phones. Sprint Nextel Corp. becomes the first U.S. wireless provider to sell its own product when the Family Locator Service rolls out Thursday. Using the Global Positioning System, Rating: 5

[Great Spirit]

I have Cingular...and for some reason my phone just had a blank stare for like an hour..so I went to Wal-Mart to get a new battery and behold it was working again. Hmm...where they doing "maitenance"??

I am actually looking forward to the Nazis coming for me in some odd way. I always wanted to see what it was really like in Nazi Germany and to see how dumb the people really were. But when they come..I will pretend I have a gun so they will open fire on me...and then I'm back in Heaven with the Father!! Woo hoo!!

I won't give them the fucking pleasure of arresting me!!!

It's hard to accept all of this...without sounding crazy. My friends don't believe any of the shit I tell them. They are still under the lie.

[AmericanTerrorist]

I have Cingular...and for some reason my phone just had a blank stare for like an hour..so I went to Wal-Mart to get a new battery and behold it was working again. Hmm...where they doing "maitenance"??

I am actually looking forward to the Nazis coming for me in some odd way. I always wanted to see what it was really like in Nazi Germany and to see how dumb the people really were. But when they come..I will pretend I have a gun so they will open fire on me...and then I'm back in Heaven with the Father!! Woo hoo!!

I won't give them the fucking pleasure of arresting me!!!

It's hard to accept all of this...without sounding crazy. My friends don't believe any of the shit I tell them. They are still under the lie.

You give yourself way too much credit my friend, waaaaay to much! You think they give a shit about you spouting your facts and what not? Nope they dont, your a zit on bush's ass at the MOST...EVER! Maybe if you see this Alex Jones guys disappear or get killed then you could START to get worried, until then stop kidding yourself and get back in the real world. Your living in your fantasy world right now!!

[Great Spirit]

You give yourself way too much credit my friend, waaaaay to much! You think they give a shit about you spouting your facts and what not? Nope they dont, your a zit on bush's ass at the MOST...EVER! Maybe if you see this Alex Jones guys disappear or get killed then you could START to get worried, until then stop kidding yourself and get back in the real world. Your living in your fantasy world right now!!

Truth is stranger then fiction.

[Myth1184]

uh, This article is a lie. To a Degree

The Sprint Tracking system is designed to alert parents whenever the Child enters an area where convicted Sex offenders live, the Cell phone will then send a warning to the parents, and the parents can then call the child to get out of that area.


Nice try tho.