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?

No. No. No. Just no. NO! The dystopia of 2020 has invaded minds.

It’s a slippery slope.
Sold as a convenience: check.
Goalposts moved to include up to age 13: check.
Then up to 18: check.
Then when social media ban extended to age 21: check.
Then rolled out to whole population because “we’ve started, so we might as well finish”.
Probably administered by Horizon, and look what that did.

Have we learned NOTHING?

a tracker would need a battery, unlike a micro chip which only gives the information held when scanned. Surely it would have to be pretty large to last 12 years so not very comfortable for a baby?

I’m beginning to suspect this isn’t going to work.

Hallelujah

Lots of kidnappings? Really? How many do you know of? That aren’t by an estranged parent, who would fibd this idea very helpful….

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Had she taught her children what to do if they were separated in the crowd before taking them to a crowded/public space?

That is the answer, not implanted trackers from a dystopian novel.

Nope. The risk of kidnapping is so low and the consequences of deciding we can pick and choose to track people deemed vulnerable is very high.