Location Tracking- Assignment 4

     I would support the use of computer chips to a certain degree if they were sold on the market. I think that this technology should be taken advantage of in order to protect the ones we love; as long as they need our protection. Pets, Alzheimer’s patients and young children would be appropriate candidates for the product and promote success. These members of the family need assistance and I feel that a tracker chip would make family’s jobs in assisting them easier and create a lifestyle with safety for the chip’s users. Although I do support the chip in this aspect, I would not agree with a mandatory bill from congress requiring ID chips to be implemented in young children. Every parent style is unique and I think it should be a parent’s choice of whether or not to use the chip. Every parent has the right to set their own rules for their young children. When it comes to those who are more independent in the family, such as teens, I do not think that chips are necessary. Teens need to be able to learn how to navigate the world for their adult future and I think that computer tracking chips would hinder that developing process. Because teens are capable of making decisions on their own, I feel that ethics would be questioned if kids this age were required to have a tracking chip because it is essentially an invasion of privacy.