| GPS tracking devices have a multitude of | | | | believe that this is and invasion of |
| uses, the majority of them are mostly | | | | their privacy. |
| beneficial. However, global positioning | | | | GPS Tracking Devices and Surveillance |
| satellite system devices sometimes | | | | Does the thought run through your mind |
| involve privacy issues that can, at | | | | if your spouse having an affair? |
| times, lead to controversy. | | | | Curious to find out what your |
| Fleet Vehicles and GPS Tracking Devices | | | | brother-in-law is up to? If you place a |
| You'll find that there are many | | | | hidden GPS tracking device on their |
| companies both large and small that use | | | | vehicle, you will at least know where |
| global positioning tracking devices to | | | | they are going in their car. You may |
| follow the location of their vehicles. | | | | have to come to your own conclusions as |
| The majority of trucking companies have | | | | to what they are actually doing there. |
| the capability to tell you where all of | | | | There are many people who would agree |
| their vehicles are at any given point in | | | | that this would be an invasion of |
| time. In a similar manner, taxi | | | | privacy and quite a few would be |
| companies as well as repair companies | | | | offended if they either knew or |
| have the capability to monitor their | | | | suspected you were tracking them. Things |
| trucks location so that they can | | | | get a little more involved when police |
| dispatch them in a more efficient | | | | use GPS tracking devices. |
| manner. | | | | Global positioning tracking devices have |
| However, there are people that believe | | | | been used by police to successfully |
| this gives the companies who choose to | | | | solve crimes. An example of the conflict |
| use GPS tracking devices more | | | | between serving justice and invasion of |
| information than is needed about their | | | | privacy; say the police put a GPS |
| drivers. For instance, trucking | | | | tracking device on the car of a person |
| companies have the capability to know | | | | they suspect of being a murderer. They |
| how much time a trucker has spent on the | | | | successfully track the the murderer as |
| road, when and for what period of time | | | | he unknowingly leads them to the victims |
| he stops for sleep or meals and if he | | | | grave. Is this an invasion of privacy? |
| has taken any unscheduled side trips. | | | | Should law enforcement officials be |
| Dispatchers at these companies may be | | | | allowed to use global positioning |
| privy to personal information that is | | | | tracking devices this way? |
| none of their business, such as a driver | | | | If, for instance, the police need to |
| having lunch each day at the same place, | | | | obtain a search warrant from a judge to |
| and it is not his residence. Some | | | | use a GPS tracking device, should a |
| individuals are of the opinion that this | | | | private citizen be able to use this |
| constitutes an invasion of personal | | | | technology without a warrant? Should the |
| privacy. | | | | average private citizen even be allowed |
| Teens and GPS Tracking Devices | | | | to use global positioning tracking |
| There are some parents who use global | | | | device technology at all? At times the |
| positioning tracking devices to know the | | | | right to privacy and the right to |
| location of their teens. They may | | | | information are in conflict, this is one |
| download global positioning system | | | | of those time. |
| tracking software technology to the | | | | All technology has moral and ethical |
| mobile phones of their teens, or they | | | | implications that we as individuals and |
| may place a global positioning system | | | | society as a whole has to grapple with. |
| tracking device somewhere in their car. | | | | The right to privacy is the ethical |
| The teenagers may or may not be aware | | | | dilemma we are forced to deal with when |
| that their parents are monitoring them. | | | | we use GPS tracking device technology. |
| There is likely quite a few teens who | | | | |