Bill Would Allow Government to Locate People With Tracking Devices.
Measure intended to protect people with disabilities who have wandered away.
A bill meant to help those with developmental disabilities would allow government agencies to locate people with tracking devices, which has some concerned the measure gives the federal government too much authority and power.
In 2008, Kevin Curtis Wills, a 9-year-old boy with autism, jumped into a river near a park and drowned. In 2014, a 14-year-old boy with autism, Avonte Oquendo, left his school and drowned in a river.
Rep. Chris Smith (R., N.J.), who chairs the Congressional Autism Caucus and the Alzheimer’s Disease Task Force, introduced a bill called Kevin and Avonte’s Law, otherwise known as H.R. 4919, in an attempt to prevent these types of accidents from happening.
The bill has garnered the support of Democrats who say it would promote public safety and address the critical need of being able to locate these individuals.
However, some are concerned the measure goes too far. The bill’s original language authorized the Attorney General to insert tracking chips into individuals involuntarily.
The idea has merit, and it should be worked on until everyone is comfortable with the language and the civil liberty angle.
Technology should be exploited for the good it can provide. Unfortunately we have people, government very much included, that will use any angle, any edge, in order to control and exploit citizens.
How wonderful would it be to never have anyone disappear without a trace anymore?
How awful would it be to never be able to simply disappear without a trace anymore?
ht/ fdr in hell
666 here we come!
A Japanese town is putting tags on fingernails. (Pic)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38247437
No, no and no. Knowing how “well intentioned” laws work, this opens the Pandora’s box for eventually every child born being inserted with a micro-chip just like animals. If there’s already a voluntary solution, then the government needs to back off.
Why don’t they give the person’s name to student loan companies instead? They can find anybody.
@TheBigOwe — This Japanese solution would only work if the wandering person is found…um…wandering.
I really don’t have a problem with this. I do have a problem with any type of “tracking device”.
I am not a proponent.
However:
If a parent chooses to track a severely impaired child or a family of a loved one with Alzheimer’s, they should be allowed to do so through a family medical provider they know and trust.
I suspect that option is already available.
Keep the government out of the equation.
The technology to do this already exists, and has for quite some time. There is absolutely no need for the government to get involved in it. If a parent wants to track the autistic child, buy the wrist band and put in on him, same with Grandpa. Nothing good can come from the government running this program. If people cannot afford the tech to make this happen, that’s what family, friends and churches are for.
Oh HELL NO.
It’s a tracking device no matter how they look at it.Tagging for good intentions should be voluntary. But, govt healthcare…
Let me get this straight. If you have a mentally ill family member who is the age of consent, there is no one on earth who will undertake providing needed medical assistance if the patient says “no”, you’re SOL. But the gov’t is more than willing to ‘tag’ people for tracking their whereabouts?
Never gonna happen. Worst clickbait i’ve seen in a while.
Fortunately they’ve developed technology to get rid of these tracking devices.
https://youtu.be/mSiFXhrxE3Y
I’m all for it, so long as ICE is in charge of finding people. As we all know, ICE can’t seem to find anyone.
Something non-permanent such as a small ankle bracelet (slip-on or lockable) could easily hold a tracker chip and would work for adults or children. There’s no need for an implant. I don’t wonder AT ALL why the government wants to legalize non-consensual implanting of tracking chips.
If this is such a good idea, why don’t the ankle bracelet, parolee crowd, child molesters, convicted felons, and illegals have them already? Be a lot easier to keep track of where they are, wouldn’t it?
Tracking isn’t the only thing an implant could be used for. How about the ability to chemically sterilize ‘unwanteds’ such as political foes, or only allow pregnancy after you buy a license? Narcotics, poisons, truth serum, all could be a payload. How would you know what was in it?
How would you feel if the feds required you to be chipped before you can vote? What about being able to turn off your ability to start a car? ‘Smart Guns’ would be harder to oppose since they’d be keyed to your chip. Of course, local law enforcement could turn that OFF any time they wanted…
What would keep it from being abused/misused? Hell, some chipped credit cards can purchase things without being plugged into a reader. Think criminals won’t be able to misuse your chip? Or track your wife or children?
This implant is inherently a violation of the 4th and 5th amendments. If involuntary implantation is allowed, it could eventually be required. It would be “common sense” and “for the children”.
Why do I somehow not really care? Get to the corner the cameras are spinning. All the intersections in my community and most of the commercial buildings have them. I’m being tracked now. Heck. Hell, if I still smoked, I’d have left the house and lit up at the corner and by the time I had gotten back back from the post office they would have known where I flipped every ash and the spot where I threw down the butt. Don’t forget the sky; they can see bugs on the ground now from the stratosphere. 1984 has been here a while folks. Honestly though, I won’t be taking any chip. I’ll opt for forced nonexistence and later, the guillotine. Think Antichrist.
Hell, it ain’t like the government is going to execute you with a drone when it deem necessary…