As our technology advances our privacy rights seem to diminish. There are little cameras that we can’t see all over the place. There are cameras at intersections and filming a person while he or she goes about their daily business in public. And the debate on whether it is right or not rages on.

Now consider GPS Tracking. When is it all right to track someone, to keep tabs on where they go at all times. Is this something straight out of George Orwell’s “1984”?

If you are an employee of a company and your position requires you to be out of the office the majority of the time then I can understand your boss’s inclination to know where you are. And it can be for your advantage. I was watching a case on a court television show and the client insisted that the worker hadn’t spent a lot of time at his place but the business owner had a GPS Tracking record with him and was able to prove that the client was wrong.

I take great issue though with one mate using GPS Tracking to keep track of his or her partner. If you mistrust the person that much then why are you with them in the first place? Break it off and move on.

If it is teenager that a parent is using GPS Tracking to keep an eye on them then it is within the parents’ rights to do so. However trust once again plays into this and you have to learn to trust your kids and that you have raised them correctly. You won’t always be there to protect them.

I guess you could say that I have mixed feelings on this issue. If GPS Tracking is being used to keep one safe or a business running properly then I can’t see it as a violation of privacy rights. But if it is just being done out of mistrust then I tell the person using GPS to get a life.