One of the tasks of a parent is to keep track of the kids. That has been made easier with the development of a wrist watch which includes the technology from the navigation instrument many of us have in our cars.
All Mum has to do is click her computer mouse to summons up a Google map - showing the position of the wearer to within an accuracy of just two metres.
Should the child remove the watch - and that is not easy - the parent will be warned by a text message.
To some this is an invasion of privacy, but we live in a world where privacy is fast disappearing. Most of us carry a mobile phone, and that acts in a similar manner to this child's wrist watch monitor.
When the phone is switched on the phone company can track us - and if necessary - make this information instantly available to the police or any national security agency.
The electronics shops can provide an amazing array of sound and visual equipment that will enable us to secretly film and hear events - and wherever we go these days there is every chance we are being recorded on CCTV cameras.
At present these watches to record the movement of children are costly, but inevitably the combination of competition and the factories of China will drive prices down to affordable levels - as happened to that car navigation device.
It should be a lesson to us to remember that this is the age of surveillance.
It is said that " honest people have nothing to fear ". Just remember that - next time temptation taps you on the shoulder !
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