Phone Trackers Turned into Apps.

IPhones have built in track devices that are used for the navigation systems on the phone so that you can use the phone as a GPS. However, the new application on the iPhone, "Find your Friends," is a complete invasion of privacy. The application is for iPhone users only and it allows you to track the exact location of your friends/family at any given time through the tracker on the iPhone. Although users of the application may say it is not invading your privacy because it is merely telling you the location of the person’s iPhone, this application opens a new window to invading our privacy by allowing others to know our whereabouts 24/7, thus leading to stalking and trailing of people.Yet, many parents approve of this assaulting application. Parents are not only protective and scared, but are also curious about their children’s lives, which leads to them invading their children’s privacy. Parents will say using this application it is not an invasion of privacy because they feel they have the right to know exactly where their children are at any given moment; however, in reality, it is an invasion of privacy because these children may not know that their parents are tracking them and following their every move. A plus side to this application is that the user of the phone (even a child) can delete it; on the other hand, as reported by Amy Lee in the Huffington Post, the new application Footprints has “a parental control feature that makes it impossible for the child to remove it (the application) without the passcode” (More Info On Footprints).