Could GPS Keep Tabs On Your Pets? 218
An anonymous reader writes "Google Latitude has already made headlines for allowing phone users to locate their friends, and there are countless other iPhone and Android phone apps already designed to transmit your location — but could pets be the next big thing in GPS tracking? A number of device manufacturers are marketing GPS technology as a futuristic tool for tracking your cat or dog, and even discovering exactly where they've been. These devices are sold under a number of names and brands, including Sportdog, LoCATor, RoamEO, Petcell, Zoombak and Pettrack."
Best possible use (Score:5, Funny)
Track the squirrels. Those little bastards are up to something.
Re:Are they (Score:2, Funny)
On The Internet... (Score:2, Funny)
On the Internet
No one knows where your dog is
Or maybe they do
Re:Track pets = track people! (Score:1, Funny)
1) limit the data to one person's account. If someone wants the data out there they could export it themselves.
2) presumably someone would only have this if they really wanted to track their pets and putting something like this on someone else's pet without permission would most likely be illegal as it is.
Tin foil hat time -
1) limit the data to the company providing the service, the government (presumably with a warrant, or the now traditional, mumble..terrorism...mumble") any motivated GPS hobbyist, and, yeah, one person's account.
2) putting this on someone else's pet would only be authorized by the war on nouns (Drugs, terrorism, etc.).
It ia actually a mildly clever way to track a target. It does require getting a hold of a live animal, but that may not be a problem, depending on temperament of the agent and the beast.