Thursday, June 19, 2008

GPS tracking; Is it ethical?

GPS Tracking has recently been very popular in all parts of the world. This tracking tool is widely used especially in business. Big companies now come up with the idea of observing and supervising their employees by using GPS Tracking. It can be very effective to fully control the whole activities going on. GPS tracking can be very effective to control anything with or without their notice.

This sophisticated Tracking tools can be used not only in the business but also for other purposes. It’s actually quite acceptable if we are being tracked with our notice, and nobody will find it comfortable being tracked. However this GPS tracking is very effective to be applied for Pet. By this we will easily find out where our pet is. When it comes to tracking your spouse, I personally think it’s not acceptable. This just not the way we deal with our beloved one. Even if you are being suspicious to your spouse it is still not ethical to have this kind of thing to track your wife/husband.

What would you do if you are being tracked without your notice? My answer is I would be very angry. I think despite having the result we expect, we will find a lot of troubles. So in nutshell GPS tracking is good to the extent to which it is legal, business purposes, and Pets. But it GPS is not for spying your spouse. It’s not ethical and very importantly it is not the right way to maintain a good relationship.

GPS tracking is once again a very effective tool to control and track people or things,. However we have to be very wise in using this tool otherwise it would create more problems.

No comments: