GPS Tracking Key – Who Would You Spy On?
Everton | Dec 16, 2007 | Comments 18
A few years ago if you’d asked me if I needed a GPS system I would have said no. But a year ago I purchased a TomTom Navigator 6 and recently I’ve replaced it with a TomTom Go 720, and now I don’t know how I’d live without a GPS unit.
I’ve always wondered what other users GPS devices could be put to. The review that has just been purchased for this site is a great example. The GPS Tracking Key is designed to ‘open the door of unknown activity’ by allowing you to attach it to vehicles so that you can track the drivers activity.
The GPS Tracking Key is powered by just 2 AAA batteries and can be placed inside, outside and even underneath the vehicle using a powerful magnet. Some of the examples given on the site for potential uses of the key are quite scary:
- To track the location of kids
- To check if your partner is cheating on you
- To see if your employees are using your vehicles for personal use
- To produce travel history for company vehicles
With one of these devices there will be no need to call ‘Cheaters’ if you suspect your partner is having it away, just get a GPS Tracking key, that can pinpoint the position of the cheater to within 2.5 metres.
In order to make sense of the data that the GPS Tracking Key is sending, reports can be received via text reports or even better, the data can be downloaded and overlayed using Google Earth for analysis. I’m not sure how helpful this actually would be under the cheaters scenario, unless the GPS tracking Key also reports whether the ’suspect’ stopped a certain address for an hour or two.
Although the device is small and easy to conceal, I think the battery live needs to be improved as the batteries need replacing too regularly, meaning that any surveillance operation would run the risk of getting caught e.g. if a car is driven 2 hours a day, the batteries will need changing every 2 weeks. I hope there’s a low battery warning, especially if a low battery would mean the device is providing incorrect information!
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Interesting. It’s strange how “spying” is the first thing that comes to mind. How tracking where someone has been on public roadways meets the definition of the word ’spying” is an interesting “stretch” of the word … but in the US, at least, spying” on yourself can be very profitable.
Many in the online world travel for business and/or are independent consultants. every mile you drive foer business use is tax deductible … I believe it’s 46 cents a mile this tax year. Every mile you drive for charity or for medical treatment (yourself or others) is also deductible. Not many, I’m guessing.
The first year I left a “real” job and worked as an independent contractor I found more than 7,000 miles unaccounted for … that would have been a deduction of over $3,000 USD _if_ I had proof that those miles were for business. Seems to me a few hundred dollars spent to gain a few thousand would be a good ROI.
Cellphone-based solutions typically do not have the accuracy or the access to the data needed … a dedicated tracker, hard-wired to the car’s battery gives much better results.
I must own this tool to track my lovely girl :)
Thanks. I found one on http://www.ggppss.com. I’ll let you know how it works.
Anyone into airsoft wargaming? This will be a darned great toy to take along when strafing enemy positions in strange terrain
I’m into paintballing. I guess you need several of em. one for each person. That would be expensive. But then again, if you’re serious at a sport, you’ll pretty much spend anything to win.
This could ruin many a outdoor sport or maybe even make it a little more interesting. Hide and seek may no longer be about the good hiding place but more on getting as close to a really large Electro magnectic device. Hehe
check out the GPS jamming / blocking devices like the ones on cellphone-jammers.com
In most cases surveillance is illegal so should be done very discreetly if you intend to spy on anyone.