This kind of creeps me out:

It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? That call to parental oversight, made famous by TV stations and copied or parodied the world over, has a new twist in the early 21st Century. With the upcoming U.S. release of phones that can help track children and teens, the dutiful parent’s answer now can be: “Yes, to the exact coordinates.”

Parents who want to know with absolute certainty where their child is will soon be able tap into the Global Positioning System (GPS) and locate the child via a cell phone enabled with the technology. If a child doesn’t call home, or answer the phone, or tell the truth about where he or she is, no worries. Parents can still find the kid, as long as the phone hasn’t been ditched or turned off.

I suppose it’s fine if parents want to do this sort of thing, but it just seems ripe for manipulation and abuse. We’ve already got the government tracking calls, do we need them to have access to GPS enabled cell phones as well? Yeah, it’s a slippery slope argument, but like I said … creepy.