Human Tracking Goes Mainstream by Jerry Dobson - June 23, 2005
Once viewed as a futuristic nightmare, human-tracking is now affordable and available without restriction. For $200 plus a monthly service fee of $20, anyone can purchase an electronic device that puts George Orwell's 1984 surveillance technology to shame. They're marketed as "kid-tracking" devices, though some ads also mention pets and senior citizens. In vivid shades of doublespeak, one company offers service plans named "Liberty, Independence, and Freedom," but surveillance and control are their purpose.

Ultimately, they offer a new form of human slavery based on location control. They pose the greatest threat to personal freedom ever faced in human history.

Whatever legitimate uses there may be -- to safeguard a child or incapacitated adult, for example -- abuses will occur. Even full-blown geoslavery is inevitable: the uncertainty is how many people will suffer from it -- hundreds, thousands or millions.
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