07:35 
Fri, 21st November 2008
GPS Tracking Could Improve Children’s Health
Indiana University School of Medicine wants to road teenage kids, and insists that it is for their possess good. In a think with a preposterously diminutive distribution filler of 15 teenage girls, researchers utilised GPS armored cellphones to road the girls’ every move.
The reason? Not, as we would expect, in visit to transfer the aggregation on to the parents, but to refer upbeat risks. The intent is that the radiotelephone would undergo when its someone is, say, behindhand the cycle drop and have a cajoling “don’t smoke” book message.
A exalted aim, to be sure, but erst the kids intend utilised to this tracking, we’re trusty that other, inferior alimental uses module be found. Targeted business is the most obvious, but how daylong until this riches of GPS aggregation is hacked? Leaked records of a teenager’s whereabouts would be anything but beatific for their health.
Cell phones could support ready teenagers in line: study [Reuters]
Melted From: Wired: Gadget Lab
Tags: cajoling, cell phones, cellphone, gadget, health risks, indiana university school, indiana university school of medicine, medicine, noble aim, parents, reuters photo, school of medicine, teenage girls, teenage kids, teenager, teenagers, text message
