Today I learned about the Sprint Family Locator feature. It allows parents to track their kids (or, more generally, an “account holder” to track the other phones on the account) using GPS included in most snazzy phones sold these days. The trackee gets notified either every time the tracker requests its location, or “periodically.” There is no completely silent tracking option.

This pretty much begs for a miscreant child of at least middling intelligence to dump the phone in his/her school locker and go about his/her business, thus negating any possible safety benefit to equipping one’s child with a mobile in the first place.

Ah, kids these days. It’s a brave new world of tech, but the low-tech issues and solutions never go away.

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