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Re:How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the... by qwsxyh on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:05PM (#19692708)
A lot of things we do to children is child abuse and is swept away without concern. All the while the attitude that "children have no rights and I should be able to parent them the way I like" is prevalent, it's never gonna stop.
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Re:How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the... by sokoloff on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:15PM (#19692811)
What's the practical alternative to parents parenting the way they like? The choices we make for our kids are almost surely different than the choices you make for yours and the many "theys" for the many "theirs". I think that's a feature of the system, not a bug.

That some parents make terrible choices is on them, not on society, IMO.

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Re:How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the... by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:20PM (#19692859)
A comprehensive "this is how children are raised" law is not practical, but banning tracking your children with GPS is certainly possible (and Germany did it, per TFA). The more subtle parts are done with community engagement and gradual cultural shifts.
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Re:How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the... by sokoloff on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:32PM (#19692962)
> banning tracking your children with GPS is certainly possible (and Germany did it, per TFA)

From TFA, I don't read the German ban as being a prohibition on GPS-based tracking, but rather on secretive audio eavesdropping being the problematic functionality.

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Re:How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the... by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:42PM (#19693046)
Ah, so it seems.
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