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Is it wrong to put a GPS tracking device in your teenagers CAR?

sounds pretty invasive to me.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    depends on who owns the car. if the kid buys it himself and pays his own gas, then yes its invasive, and illegal. but if the parents support him/her and provide the automobile its within thier rights to install whatever they want in it.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    As a parent, "my car, my rules" isn't enough. It's not a privacy issue, it's a safety issue. I would definatly install GPS to be able to track my child. There is too much crime in the world for children and teenagers to have full reign. Even if my teenager bought his own car, it would still be installed. I love my children very much, and have a responsibility to their safety. If that makes them angry with me, thats something I'll have to live with. Privacy is something that comes later. Not only when a teenager buys his/her own car, but when he/she is fully grown, and has his/her own home. So, to sum it up, not exactly 'my car, my rules', more like 'my house, my rules'.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Dosent the manufactureers of cars put a computer in that tells the same thing for insurance purposes supposodly. I saw it on 20/20 or something. Not wrong in a teens car at all.

  • 1 decade ago

    It depends on whether that particular teenager has shown himself to be unreliable. If I could afford it, and my son had a car of his own, I'd probably get one.

    It sounds like a modern version of reading your daughter's diary, doesn't it?

  • 6 years ago

    La verdad es que no estoy muy buena con la orientación y he comprado de bastantes veces GPS de sitios web, de mano o de bicicleta siempre han estado de una excelente calidad así que después de comprar el coche la primera cosa que hice fue comprar un GPS en los sitios web, la marca ya lo tenía claro y el GPS que me ha llegado esta perfecto, con mapas actualizadas, 3D, nombres de calles correctas, simplemente perfecto.

  • 1 decade ago

    If a teen is prone to making trouble and getting into trouble with the authorities than yes. Otherwise no.

  • kim t
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    As a mom, and all the nights I've worried about my daughter,.. no, small price to pay for a piece of mind.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It depends on the teenager. If he/she has proven to be untrustworthy, then it would be wrong NOT to. Then again, if he/she has proven to be untrustworthy, then maybe he/she shouldn't be driving at all.

  • 1 decade ago

    It's OK till they turn 18, then they're an adult and none of your business.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes, unless the child has proven herself untrustworthy

    Justin

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