I blogged about this when Sprint first unveiled its service, but the Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro actually reviewed the phone, thinking here and there from the perspective of “the objects of all this surveillance.” He does get one thinking about how far we’ve come since 9/11. “As demonstrated by a Sprint publicist yesterday, the service was deceptively easy to use . . . considering that the whole idea would have been science-fiction fodder a decade ago.” He concludes with the thought of what it might feel like for a traveling employee knowing HQ can in this way “manage its mobile assets.” I wonder how big the market is for this technology, which does seem to take potential privacy invasion to another level. Rob writes, “The whole idea of tracking your family in this manner is weird and alarming on some levels. So is the notion that we’re all so deathly afraid for our kids that there’s even a market for this.” Do you agree? Email me or comment in our forum.
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