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 An app called Family Tracker can help parents track location of their loved ones. |
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It's a parent's worst nightmare. Their child doesn't come home one evening and is missing for several days. When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track his location. It is one of several apps that allow parents to track the whereabouts of their children. "You can see where your loved ones are without having to call or bother them," said Roberto Franceschetti of LogSat, the creators of the Family Tracker, which has more than 100,000 users and is available worldwide. Parents can track the location of their child on a map, send messages, and even activate an alarm on the phone remotely. "We have an option for the sender to make a very nasty, noisy sound. It's a loud siren and we repeat that sound every two minutes until the person picks up," he said. Parents don't need to own a smartphone to track their children. The service is also accessible via the web, as long as the phone that is being tracked is running the app, which runs on an iPhone or Android devices. Family Tracker has an additional service that keeps a log of all data generated by the app for a two-week period, which the company calls GPS breadcrumbs. The service was used to find the missing boy in Atlanta. "With a subscription, we keep all the locations where people have been on our servers. You can see where your kid has been for the past two weeks. You can find out where someone was at a certain time, or when that person was at a specific place," Franceschetti explained. "When somebody gets abducted, usually whoever does this throws the phone away or takes the battery out. We were hoping that our app would at least provide information on where the person was abducted or where they had been in the past, that way the police would have a history or some clues as to who they may have been seeing." But are these types of apps an invasion of privacy? "The advantages are huge compared to the disadvantages. Let's not forget that the person always has to give initial permission -- no one can be tracked unless they allow someone to do it," said Franceschetti. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
如果有一天晚上，自己的孩子沒(méi)有回家，然后接下去幾天都蹤跡全無(wú)。這對(duì)父母來(lái)說(shuō)，是最可怕的噩夢(mèng)。 一個(gè)來(lái)自美國(guó)佐治亞州亞特蘭大市的14歲男孩今年早些時(shí)候失蹤了，他的母親用自己智能手機(jī)上的一款名為“家庭追蹤系統(tǒng)”的程序來(lái)幫助找出他所在的方位。 這是讓父母能追蹤孩子所在地的幾款應(yīng)用程序之一。 這種“家庭追蹤系統(tǒng)”是由LogSat公司創(chuàng)建的。該公司的羅伯托?弗郎西舍提說(shuō)：“你無(wú)需打電話或打擾孩子就能知道你心愛(ài)的寶貝在哪里。”這一系統(tǒng)有超過(guò)10萬(wàn)用戶，可在全球范圍內(nèi)使用。 父母?jìng)兛梢宰粉櫟胶⒆釉诘貓D上的位置，可以發(fā)信息，甚至能遠(yuǎn)程激活電話上的警報(bào)器。 他說(shuō)：“我們提供讓發(fā)送者啟動(dòng)非常刺耳、吵鬧的聲音的選項(xiàng)。這是一種很響亮的警報(bào)聲，我們每?jī)煞昼娋蜁?huì)重復(fù)一次這種響聲，直到接收者接電話為止?！?/p> 父母?jìng)儧](méi)有智能手機(jī)也能追蹤自己的小孩。這項(xiàng)服務(wù)也可以從網(wǎng)上獲得，只要被追蹤的手機(jī)運(yùn)行這一程序即可。該程序在iPhone或Android系統(tǒng)的手機(jī)上都可以運(yùn)行。 “家庭追蹤系統(tǒng)”還有一項(xiàng)服務(wù)，能保存該應(yīng)用程序在兩周內(nèi)產(chǎn)生的所有數(shù)據(jù)記錄，公司將其稱為“GPS面包屑”功能。 該服務(wù)被用于尋找亞特蘭大的失蹤男孩。 弗郎西舍提解釋說(shuō)：“只要您預(yù)訂這一服務(wù)，我們就能為您保存服務(wù)器上所有的行蹤數(shù)據(jù)。您可以看到過(guò)去兩周內(nèi)您的孩子曾去過(guò)的地方。您可以查明某人在特定時(shí)間所在的地方，或者某人出現(xiàn)在特定地方的時(shí)間?！?/p> “如果某人被劫持了，通常劫持者會(huì)把手機(jī)扔掉，或?qū)㈦姵厝〕?。我們希望我們的?yīng)用程序至少能提供劫持發(fā)生地，或被劫持者曾到過(guò)哪些地方等信息，這樣警察對(duì)于被劫持者可能見(jiàn)過(guò)的人會(huì)有些線索，或能從檔案獲知?！?/p> 但是這種類型的應(yīng)用程序是否侵犯了隱私權(quán)呢？ 弗郎西舍提說(shuō)：“相比壞處而言，好處要多得多。不要忘了首先都得獲得被追蹤者的許可才行——除非自己允許他人這么做，否則誰(shuí)也無(wú)法被追蹤?！?/p> 相關(guān)閱讀 日本推出地震預(yù)警服務(wù) 手機(jī)可預(yù)報(bào)地震 厭倦加好友？Facebook新應(yīng)用讓你加“敵人” iPhone成“外遇終結(jié)者” 實(shí)時(shí)定位監(jiān)控出軌 （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 陳丹妮 編輯：Julie） |
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