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• Amber Alert Now an iPhone App

  The newest application approved for the iPhone by its makers at Apple comes free - and could free missing children from their captors.  The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) got the go-ahead from Apple to distribute an Amber Alert app for the iPhone, that will provide real-time active AMBER alerts including victim and suspect photos and information. Read More... Posted Mar 12 2009, 12:33 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: apple, AMBER alert, Jeanne Sager, iphone app, GPS, missing kids, steve jobs, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, iPhone application

• Google Will Help You Track Your Kids

  Most New Yorkers of a certain age will remember this message from Channel 5 (now Fox): – "It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?" Well, Google wants to help make sure the answer to that question is always "yes." Today the search giant will announce Google Latitude, a new service that allows users keep track of their friends' locations via cell phone. Read More... Posted Feb 05 2009, 04:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, news, tech, Google, Brett Singer, GPS, spying on your kids, tracking your children, tracking kids, do you know where your children are, google will help you keep track of your children, google latitude, finding your children, do you know where your kids are, finding your kids, tech news, tracking your kids

• Would You Use GPS Tracking on Your Kids?

  My brother-in-law likes to joke that when his kids are older, he'll install drug detectors in all the toilets in the house. At least, I think he's joking. I assume he's joking because it seems wrong to me to be so untrusting of your own kids. I like to think I would know if my kids were using drugs, and plan on making it my business to know when the time comes. Relying on drug tests to determine sobriety seems like abdicating parental responsibility a bit. Which is why I'm so turned off by the new GPS tracking devices to use on our kids. The devices, which look like watches, are locked on by the parents so they always know where their child is. And if the watch is forcibly removed, the parents receive an alarm notification. Perfect safety, right? Read More... Posted Jan 20 2009, 02:38 PM by KeriF with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: kids, drug testing, Keri Fisher, GPS, leashes

• GPS Lingerie Upsets Some, Entices Others

  Parents everywhere worry about how to keep track of their daughters. Brazilian lingerie maker Lucia Lorio has the answer to your prayers – GPS lingerie! Read More... Posted Nov 25 2008, 03:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: technology, wtf, women, men, lingerie, daily mail, Brett Singer, GPS, gps lingerie

• Do Safety Gadgets Make For Safer Kids or Crazier Parents?

  Quick, what's more likely: getting hit by lightning or having a child fall victim to stranger abduction? If you think it's the stranger danger, chances are you've been watching too much local news and seen too many Amber alerts (it's not even close: while about 100 children are kidnapped each year by non-family members, around 1300 people are struck by lightning). Today's parents, according to an article in the Washington Times, are not only more aware of potential dangers than our parents were, we've gone off the deep end, worrying about our kids far out of proportion to the actual threats they face. Read More... Posted Nov 12 2008, 01:30 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: safety, stranger danger, abduction, amber alerts, GPS