| GPS tracking devices have a multitude of uses, | | | | GPS Tracking Devices and Surveillance |
| the majority of them are mostly beneficial. | | | | Does the thought run through your mind if your |
| However, GPS devices sometimes involve privacy | | | | spouse having an affair? Curious to find out what |
| issues that 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 GPS tracking devices to | | | | may have to come to your own conclusions as |
| follow the location of their vehicles. The majority | | | | to what they are actually doing there. |
| of trucking companies have the capability to tell | | | | There are many people who would agree that |
| you where all of their vehicles are at any given | | | | this would be an invasion of privacy and quite a |
| point in time. In a similar manner, taxi companies | | | | few would be offended if they either knew or |
| as well as repair companies have the capability to | | | | suspected you were tracking them. Things get a |
| monitor their trucks location so that they can | | | | little more involved when police use GPS tracking |
| dispatch them in a more efficient manner. | | | | devices. |
| However, there are people that believe this gives | | | | GPS tracking devices have been used by police to |
| the companies who choose to use GPS tracking | | | | successfully solve crimes. An example of the |
| devices more information than is needed about | | | | conflict between serving justice and invasion of |
| their drivers. For instance, trucking companies | | | | privacy; say the police put a GPS tracking device |
| have the capability to know how much time a | | | | on the car of a person they suspect of being a |
| trucker has spent on the road, when and for | | | | murderer. They successfully track the the |
| what period of time he stops for sleep or meals | | | | murderer as he unknowingly leads them to the |
| and if he has taken any unscheduled side trips. | | | | victims grave. Is this an invasion of privacy? |
| Dispatchers at these companies may be privy to | | | | Should law enforcement officials be allowed to use |
| personal information that is none of their business, | | | | GPS tracking devices 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 GPS tracking | | | | GPS tracking device technology at all? At times |
| devices to know the location of their teens. They | | | | the right to privacy and the right to information |
| may download GPS tracking software technology | | | | are in conflict, this is one of those time. |
| to the mobile phones of their teens, or they may | | | | All technology has moral and ethical implications |
| place a GPS tracking device somewhere in their | | | | that we as individuals and society as a whole has |
| car. The teenagers may or may not be aware | | | | to grapple with. The right to privacy is the ethical |
| that their parents are monitoring them. | | | | dilemma we are forced to deal with when we use |
| There is likely quite a few teens who believe that | | | | GPS tracking device technology. |
| this is and invasion of their privacy. | | | | |