Taser Now Peddling Mobile Phone Surveillance System
January 11th, 2010Via: AFP:
Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents, not with jolts of electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take over a child’s mobile phone and manage its use.
“Basically we’re taking old fashioned parenting and bringing it into the mobile world,” Taser chairman and co-founder Tom Smith said at the Consumer Electronics Show here, where the Arizona company unveiled the new product.
“Because when you give your child his mobile phone you don’t know who they’re talking to, what they’re sending or texting, all of those things,” Smith told AFP.
The phone application, called “Mobile Protector,” allows a parent to screen a child’s incoming and outgoing calls and messages, block particular numbers and even listen in on a conversation.
A dashboard on a parent’s phone or a personal computer shows the mobiles being monitored and the permitted callers such as friends and family.
“You can start it out very restrictive and then as they get older you can relax those restrictions as that trust factor’s gained,” Smith said.
Here’s a cheap way to control those pesky cell phones….. Don’t get one! If the kids whine about it just lay down the law and say, “deal with it”. Nobody is going to die at the Mall or over at Suzies sleep over or the TCBY after skrool just because they haven’t got a phone glued to their skulls or they’re texting like demented idiots while driving. Nuff said.