Tue 8 Jul 2008
What Do You Think about Personal Tracking Devices on Cellphones?
Posted by smithy under Gadget & Electronic
Cell phones have come a long way - regardless of whether you’re a business person or stay at home mother, have a cell phone with you is no longer a privilege - it is a necessity. In this modern age technology, cell phones grew by itself to your way communication device. The cell phone is also a personal organizer, calendar, calculator, stopwatch, alarm clock, camera-mail, fax equipment, journalist, etc.
In an emergency, a cell phone can and will certainly be a life saves and 14 years, Kelly Emerson can attest to that. Se lost in a jungle is not fun for teenagers. But thank you to his attention and keep mum, Kelly has a cell phone with her and when she lost in the jungle, the cell phone she had with her saved her life. At less than 3 hours, they found her hanging in his cell phone and praying. Wet, crying, hunger - but of course!
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently suggested that communication companies work harder to integrate a device to identify the location and technology on cellular phones so that receivers can call verifying the location of ‘calling in an emergency. For people like Kelly Emerson, the cell phone saved his life - but with advances in technology, the appellant or the owner’s cell phone May not even need to wake up or conscious for others to detect their location.
Well, there are advantages and disadvantages to this type of technology, and currently, this recommendation has come under fire is underway and a lot of debate today. People are not willing to transform their personal cell phone, because devices very obvious reasons - it is a form of intrusion in their personal lives. And instead of saving lives, cell phones with a capacity of May this even become a threat. Say, a husband murderer trying to find a woman run away and is able to detect its location through his cell phone.
While individuals are very confused about this new technology of cellular phones, large corporations are more than happy to welcome this new cell phone technology. Imagine… with this tracking device installed in their personal cell phones customers, companies can find customers through their cellphones. If the customer is close to their output, they can instantly send messages or make calls on this score!
However, telecommunication companies are stumped if this new cell phone feature should be incorporated in future cellular phones. Like the Internet, privacy is an enormous problem. Personal information is largely in the extraction of business data, but so is privacy. We’ll just have to see to what extent the cell phone companies are ready to go to make their money!
Tags: attention, cellphone, Communications, device, FCC, Federal, intrusion, organizer, person, privacy, privilege, Technology


















