Is this the future of Technology to come. Should we implant GPS devices in our Children?

I know this will not be the "best" answer. We implant GPS deviices in our pets. Why not our children when they are newborns (futuristic) with so many being stalked by child preditors or babies being abducted out of hospitals? (Houston, TX)

Your idea would have had a "thumbs up" from me when my children were growing up. Even now that they have cell phones, they (adults 20 yrs+) never answer them.

IADDITION 11/18: I would see it similar to the GPS chip some people put in their pets, or the GPS system put on new cars. It is not activated UNTIL necessary and by the authorities. Parents cannot just routinely check their kid's whereabouts.

Afraid of device "implants?"

There are now over 2000 distinct medical devices (technology) that are implantable in people around the world to extend life, increase the quality of life, and diagnose medical problems.

You are focusing on the wrong problem.

GPS'ing children only means that they can be located sooner. Implanting a GPS chip in one person has no affect on the person doing the abducting.

Only a combination of solutions working together can result in dramatic reduction in lost children.

confident, it may keep a good number of childrens from tremendous damage from molesters and/or murderers, or if the youngster walks off on my own like they look to do plenty. i imagine that at 18, it may nicely be bumped off. yet besides the undeniable fact that, it really is as a lot because the guy, that adverse female Kelsey Smith in KC replaced into 18, purely graduated severe college and replaced into found murdered and they found her by her cellular telephone, yet they were too overdue. If she had GPS they could have saved her. i wager for me, i don't believe of it may nicely be regulation, yet a human being determination and a very good idea

Technology changes, and frequently. GPS is based upon satellites whose technology has evolved since its original application. Do you really want to implant devices in children only to have them taken out in the future, replaced with new ones? Today, only heart pacemaker patients really need to undergo this kind of operation, to change batteries or upgrade their devices. Remember that an active GPS transponder would have to be more than a mere chip to help a parent locate a missing child. It would also need a power source for a receiver and transmitter, capable of broadcasting information of its whereabouts. A child, in whom such technology was routinely embedded and maintained, could easily grow to resent their parents for such successive invasions of their body. A parent may declare their child's body is sacred. But at what cost of violation by compulsory surgery would that be?

If they have cellphones they're already being monitored.

Of course a 'kidnapper' or whatever could be smart and turn off the phone. That's why the chip is superior.

Unless you have something illegal to hide, there's only benefit in RFID technology. Or if you're a wacky dissident who mistrusts information and security, in general.

People use it on their pets.

Are children somehow less important than a pet?

It's completely optional.

However they're already putting passive RFID chips in US passports. If we must carry around a national ID card with RFID in the future, then anyone with a powerful enough scanner can pull up your info -- say from a helicopter over traffic.

NO, i think we need a tougher police force, and more (different) ways to let people know that a child is missing.

I really do not think that it would be right to implant gps into our children- that is almost cruel (in my opinion). If we could have children wear jewelry or clothes with trackers implanted in them, that is a diferent story, but implants in the kids themsevles, thats not right.

No!

1) What if the child is trying to escape an abusive parent who can just track them with GPS?

2)Children have rights too and parents shouldn't know where they are 24-7. It just gives them the power to 100% control their children's lives.

3)Who else might be able to access it and track them?

4)What if goes wrong and kills them?

5)It might encourage a kidnapper to cut it out of the child therefore doing them more harm than good.

Too 1984'ish. I prefer the "wearable" GPS (bracelets, necklaces, etc.) for kids.

Think of it this way - as an adult, do you want someone (perhaps the government) knowing where you are at all times? These kids will eventually be adults and will we then remove the chips? Seems too medically risky, as well as too Orwellian.

yeah, i agree to GPS in kids, if my kid got abducted we would know exactly where they were. with amber alert some perv could be hiding my kid somewhere and no one would be able to spot him or her.

it's a sad sick world when we have to protect our kids like this.

If my parents were to do that to me, I know I would deeply resent them. It would feel as if they can't trust me. As helpful for kidnappings as they might be, parents would probably use them to track where their children are ALL the time. No freedom.