A lot of people are very concerned about privacy and security issues regarding GPS auto navigation systems. This does not only involve your in-car sat nav, but also portable devices such as your cell phone.
These days the majority of people can be tracked one way or another, whether it be by their cell phone, their GPS auto navigation system or an RFID tag that was sewn into a shirt they purchased last month at a supermarket.
Some people do not mind about this state of affairs, some deplore it, but most people are not even aware of it. It is hard to escape being tracked. It is often said that anyone walking around London carrying out his or her routine daily life these days, shows up on a closed circuit TV screen about 300 times every day.
However, there are benefits. If I was being mugged in London, I would hope that someone could see me on a screen and send the police or if I was hiking and I fell and broke my leg, I would be pleased that the rescue personnel could track me because I was using a GPS enabled cell phone.
Luckily, there are fairly strict laws in place in most Western countries limiting what can be done with the intelligence gathered from GPS auto navigation systems. The issue is that everyone knows that governments break the law and can change them to suit themselves whenever they like. No-one trusts politicians. Not even politicians.
This leads to a massive dilemma for a great deal of people and especially parents of young children. Do you switch on the tracking options of a GPS enabled mobile phone so that you or your child can be found if lost or injured or are you frightened that that information may be misused by a criminal of some kind - a kidnapper or a paedophile?
None of us really knows what our governments are up to or capable of, but we are being wound up by movies and books about the general invasion of our privacy and what clever people can do with the information that is floating around us in the air.
In reality, we have all given up a great deal of the privacy that our grandparents took for granted, but the perceived dangers to society are greater these days, although 9/11 could have happened to the Empire State Building 80 years ago and anthrax could have been released on London or New York 100 years ago. People do not need high technology to carry out carnage. Look at World War One or Rwanda.
GPS and auto navigation systems are good things. They help you stay aware of where your loved ones are and give you the peace of mind that if they get into trouble they will have a better opportunity of getting out of it.
The intelligence gathered by these GPS auto navigation systems can be used in the wrong way, that is undeniable, but at the moment it probably is not. However, employing GPS auto navigation systems can help keep you and your family secure.
These days the majority of people can be tracked one way or another, whether it be by their cell phone, their GPS auto navigation system or an RFID tag that was sewn into a shirt they purchased last month at a supermarket.
Some people do not mind about this state of affairs, some deplore it, but most people are not even aware of it. It is hard to escape being tracked. It is often said that anyone walking around London carrying out his or her routine daily life these days, shows up on a closed circuit TV screen about 300 times every day.
However, there are benefits. If I was being mugged in London, I would hope that someone could see me on a screen and send the police or if I was hiking and I fell and broke my leg, I would be pleased that the rescue personnel could track me because I was using a GPS enabled cell phone.
Luckily, there are fairly strict laws in place in most Western countries limiting what can be done with the intelligence gathered from GPS auto navigation systems. The issue is that everyone knows that governments break the law and can change them to suit themselves whenever they like. No-one trusts politicians. Not even politicians.
This leads to a massive dilemma for a great deal of people and especially parents of young children. Do you switch on the tracking options of a GPS enabled mobile phone so that you or your child can be found if lost or injured or are you frightened that that information may be misused by a criminal of some kind - a kidnapper or a paedophile?
None of us really knows what our governments are up to or capable of, but we are being wound up by movies and books about the general invasion of our privacy and what clever people can do with the information that is floating around us in the air.
In reality, we have all given up a great deal of the privacy that our grandparents took for granted, but the perceived dangers to society are greater these days, although 9/11 could have happened to the Empire State Building 80 years ago and anthrax could have been released on London or New York 100 years ago. People do not need high technology to carry out carnage. Look at World War One or Rwanda.
GPS and auto navigation systems are good things. They help you stay aware of where your loved ones are and give you the peace of mind that if they get into trouble they will have a better opportunity of getting out of it.
The intelligence gathered by these GPS auto navigation systems can be used in the wrong way, that is undeniable, but at the moment it probably is not. However, employing GPS auto navigation systems can help keep you and your family secure.
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Owen Jones is currently involved with the fleet management tracking system. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Laser Temperature Gun.
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