Privacy concerns as 3G and 4G internet speeds enable personal PC’s and mobile phone devices to connect your reported position coordinates to a central location. This technology could be used by law enforcement, the government, or nearly any other outside party with the capability to track your whereabouts without your knowledge. In fact, the U.S. government already does this. The F.B.I. uses a program called Carnivore to track emails. Of course, this GPS technology can be used to track children and provide crucial information in stopping serial killers, kidnappers, thieves, home invaders, and terrorists foreign and domestic. And while its use could help save lives, it could also be used to snoop and monitor individuals without their knowing.
Would you want to be tracked unknowingly by a government agency, debt collector, or even a friend or loved one checking up on you? This should be a question we all ask ourselves as we move progressively into an era where science fiction quickly becomes reality. Humans have the ability to plant tracking devices under the skin, and there has been talk in the U.K. of electronically tagging children with a microchip. Anymore, if you want to go anywhere you take along some digitally enhanced device like a pocket PC, a pager, cell phone, GPS, or even a watch, and you can be tracked. Think of the possibilities when one considers the future of smart-grid technologies. GPS tracking sensors and software will certainly be a large part of the future of smart grids. Where might the intrusion into our daily lives stop? How might government seek to trample individual rights under the guise of Progress with the advent of modern technology?
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