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