Phonies

Prepaid cell phones provide an inexpensive and a simple user friendly interface that makes the luxury of a personal phone a possibility for many different socioeconomic and age groups. However, there are people that use these phones to stay undetected from possible law enforcement investigations. One idea that I have to suggest for these phones is to require a person to register their device. All this registration would do is link the serial number of the phone with the name of the person who purchased it along with the location of the purchased phone. Overall, banning prepaid cell phones would force the group of prepaid users to either spend more money for an expensive cell phone carrier or make them get rid of a phone all together.

I'm Watching You

Placing a computer chip in an animal is one thing, but putting one of these tracking devices in a person is completely different. Especially if the person is unaware that they have the chip on/in them. I feel that parents being able to track their young child (age 5 and below) is understandable. Children of this age should not be trusted to wander out in the real world by themselves. However, once the child starts becoming more independent and the parents are using the device to spy on the whereabouts of their child, they are now violating their privacy. Using the chip to identify a missing person is less morally questionable than using it to follow someone's every step. 

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