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The Ugliness of Privacy Notices
It's bad enough as it is, the real problem is that such parents also use their political muscle to forcably recruit the government and their neighbors into supporting their insane paranoia.
They've destroyed rock concerts, band camps, SF cons, SCA gatherings, and such, because the people who were teens at those events a generation ago have grown up, and gone back and in their paranoia about their own kids, forcably stopped the kind of stuff they themselves did.
I'm firmly convienced that we're going to see the same thing happen in the raver scene, as ravers grow up, have kids, and their kids grow up to the age they are now.
A pox on the lot of you.
Any kid who's really up to no good (and a few who are just resentful of surveillance) would just have to take out the battery and suddenly he turns invisible.
And of course the more widespread and well-known that technology becomes, the more likely it is for kidnappers to search their victims for phones.
Everyone loses.
Now I know that I am being paranoid here, as the government would not breach my right of privacy with this technology, umm wait on, did they not just install a monitoring office in a phone company, are they not doing this already. I guess the government is doing it so that pipe dream of freedom just bit the dust, but I know my partner would not do it, umm, maybe. My boss I know would, the only thing stopping him is his tightwad attitude, he may do the math and find that it is cheaper just to pay me rather than pay extra to find me.