Cell Phones and Privacy

Prepaid phones aren’t just used by criminals. These prepaid phones are sometimes used by teenagers don’t have enough money to buy a cell phone plan so they can add minutes as much as they need in a time. I think that would be a good and bad idea if the law banned these phones or made people register them. The good part would be if the person who had the phone needed to be found for legitimate cause, so if the phone was registered than that would make it easier to do. The bad part about banning these phones is because they aren’t just for criminals. These phones can be for parents controlling how much their child uses the phone, or someone who doesn’t wasn’t to spend a lot of money on a cell phone plan. That makes for this to be a two sided argument because it has plus side if someone was needed to be found, but a down side if the phones were to be outlawed. 

Location tracking

I think that implanting a computer chip into children isn’t such a bad idea. When you are younger there isn’t much privacy needed, so the main purpose for this would be if the child went missing. With that said parents should be able to have an option of chip implanting young children because there is not much of a risk for implanting them. As the child gets older there is more of an issue. Being a teenager, I feel that privacy becomes very important to the aspect of growing up. If a teenager can’t find privacy away from their parents, that can cause for the risk of rebellion away from the parents. I would support a bill in Congress to chip implant children under 5 because the reason for doing it would be for safety reasons.

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