

"If it's in your own home, a security system, and you're the one who has access to it and others don't, you are in control." To be ethical about it, you should let visitors know that they are subject to being videotaped or monitored while in your home.The equipment is most often used to perform surveillance. He added that the ethical issues are much different if you do that to someone without their consent, especially when it occurs on private property versus in a public place. It's certainly not something I'd do to my kids. But if a user wants to track another person for another reason in a secret way, then that's perhaps an unethical use. If a parent wants to use a GPS device to ensure their teen driver's safety and tells the teen that the device is being used in the vehicle, then that can "help keep an honest person honest," Tien said. "But once you start thinking about where you are in your everyday life and when you are there, it's actually a pretty revealing thing." It's one thing when such tracking data is collected with your implied consent, such as when you sign up to use an EZ-Pass transponder in your vehicle to automatically pay tolls on highways and bridges across the eastern U.S., Tien said. If child or other loved one was in that kind of position, what would you do? You know, you do what you have to do."ĮFF attorney Tien said gadgets like these can be used ethically - or not. If someone wants to judge somebody for buying a camera or buying a voice recorder, they have to put themselves in the other person's shoes.

"If a mother wants to check on her child, that's for her to decide. "Ethically, I think it's a personal decision," Helen Bowser said. So it's now possible for anyone to spy on others.

"You can actually even take the GPS coordinates and plot it out on Google Maps." The ethical questions "You can find out wherever they were and exactly what they were doing," Westphal said. A logger can be stealthily placed in a vehicle where it stores the GPS coordinates later, it's removed by parents, who plug it into a computer to review the driving details.

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Parents of teenagers are buying and using GPS loggers to watch over how their new drivers are doing on the roads, particularly so they can monitor speeds and driving routes. Tim Westphal, a private investigator in Fraser, Mich., who also runs Spytek Detroit, a business selling personal security gear, said all kinds of people use these gadgets for many different reasons. Helen Bowser, co-owner of The Protection Pros If child or other loved one was in that kind of position, what would you do? Also popular are devices that can detect if a user's phone or room is being bugged by listening devices. For example, Bowser said, many customers buy surveillance cameras to keep an eye on nannies who care for their children in their homes.īowen Scott, president of SpyGear4U in Kingsport, Tenn., said that among his biggest sellers in high-tech personal security equipment are small audio recorders that allow a user to record voices or other audio in another room.
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"The majority of these products are purchased for the safety of peoples' families or friends, or for when they are having work done in their homes and can't be there to watch," said Helen Bowser, co-owner of The Protection Pros in Morristown, Ind., which sells a full line of personal security devices online to everyone from suspicious spouses to worried parents. "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it." Who uses spy devices? "There are definitely legalities to consider," said Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney for the San Francisco-based non-profit privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
