AIBU to think child tracking implants would be useful until age 12?

[LucyLocker]

Is it a thing? I was just thinking. When my kids were born, if there had been the option to put an implant tracker in their arm, let’s say for £100, I’d have done it. I’d propose all trackers are removed at age 12, to allow teens more responsibility and freedom, but before that age - why not? I can’t think a scenario my kids need to be somewhere I don’t know about. If kids were microchipped it would solve kidnappings. And estranged parents could know where their kid was.
What do you reckon?

But usually under 12 children are nearly always with a trusted adult, or in relatively safe situation?

This - my 11 year old august birthday Y7 at secondary did walk home alone - and some of her peers nearer 12 went home to empty houses but it was busy routes they knew and risk assed by parents.

Younger ages they were supervised or in relatively safe situations. It was time building up their skills so they could be out and about at older ages alone.

Plus how ends up having access compared to supposed to ie security would be an issue - plus removing said chips or even changing them for another to confuse.

I don't see how this benefits anyone TBH.

Good god no - with the amount of sophisticated hackers out there - could you imagine what they would do if they could find the location of all kids ….. jeepers

My sil has a severely non verbal autistic child and asked if that could be done for them .
She was told a firm no as it infringes their personal rights and is not appropriate even though they would have been very likely to be killed on the roads if they reached them ( they live rural )

I'd like it for my cat, he has a chip in him anyway.

I'd be too worried that someone would chop my child's arm off to want to do it to him.

Could be useful when you lose your kid. My neighbour lost her kid in a shopping centre last weekend. For about 30 minutes. She said it was the worst experience of her life!

Why insert them when they can carry them around 24/7….

Who the hell did she ask???

How old.

Think she’s about 37

Just track the mobile? Nearly all kids have mobiles now.

Oh good lord, no!

Op do you now see how silly this is 🤞

I had three kids never once lost them once.

There are usually procedures for finding lost kids at supermarket, shopping centers and big events and these days often phones to track.

I actually wonder if it could make parents less focused - assuming as they know where kids are they are safe rather than in serious trouble in water for example.

🤣🤣🤣 puerile, but I did laugh 😂

Not little kids

Plus it really focuses the attention on the risk that is much smaller (stranger abduction) vs the risk that is much larger (harm from a family member).

Yeah there’d have to be a way to avoid hacking or unauthorised access to the data

Kidnapping by a stranger is exceptionally rare. Most child abductions are by a parent

I’m not talking about unauthorised access. I’m talking about a father accessing data he is allowed to access and therefore locating a refuge his partner has fled to.

Famously, government IT is extremely secure 👀.

I simply cannot believe you can’t see the logical nightmare that this is.

Yep, it's very black mirror

How would they be powered? Things like AirTags need to be charged. Ones in pets don’t need charge as they aren’t trackers they are ID chips that need a scanner to read.

Ridiculous idea.

You could put an airtag or other thing of this type in their backpack or attach it to their shoe or whatever.

Someone else mentioned severely disabled children who are prone to running off - this is something people do in that case as a sort of extra safety net on top of always having adults supervise them, having door alarms etc.

And they’d cut it out

Any one wanting to kidnap a child would cut it out op

it really is that simple