Friday, September 27, 2013

Implanting Children (What?!?)

Implanting computer chips into pets and farm animals is fine and all, but I draw the line at children. Believe it or not, those children grow up to become adults and would you like to be able to be tracked your every movement, even if you didn't use internet? I find the benefits very slim compared to the risks. What happens if a hacker, let's just say he's a child molester, finds the location of your child chip? Now you child has no way of getting away from the hacker. I'll say that it is good to be able to find missing children, but out of the whole population how many kids go missing? Now, lets compare to how many don't. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children it is about 800,000 children (http://www.missingkids.com/KeyFacts). Now, that's a big number. However, there are about 74 million according to  http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp this is a huge difference. Yeah, we may be able to help those kids, but who says that even with the chips we can safe them from being killed? The fact of the matter is, that if we put 74 million chips into kids head, one there is no such thing as privacy anymore, and two would not help the masses, in fact it could help bad guys find the kids. There is no way I'd support any of this, for the sake of my children, and for the sake of their privacy when they grow up. What if there was some kind of bug that hurt the child? However, I find the GPS shoes for seniors with Alzheimer to be acceptable. No one should be tracking down an old man with super bad intentions. In fact, I'm sure they could make it easy to make and control so that nothing gets too out of hand. I personally just hate the idea of implanting chips into children.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you. Children have the right to freedom, too. Even before they become adults. You also made a good point about how many children go missing compared to how many children are in the world.

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