* Posts by stockds

2 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Sep 2011

MPs label police IT 'not fit for purpose'

stockds

Beaten to the punch!!!

That was exactly my comment. Just replace NPfIT with "IT police company" and you have a disaster all over again.

Microsoft demos creepy car stalking system

stockds

We have the know how.....

......my company actually sells tracking solutions like this. We specialise in tracking high value assets but we have a few customers that like to track their cars mostly for milage expense claim validation (business vs. private miles) and sometime for lone worker monitoring (part of EU regulation to ensure lone workers are safe and well).

However we did think about extending into tracking kids cars - but not with a "I want to see where they are all the time" but by allowing the parent to setup waypoints so that they know child got to [insert important places here] safely. For example child driving to Uni - parent gets message when child enters boundary 2 miles around Uni. Parent happy that child got there safely, child happy they are not being snooped on with too much accuracy. One of my directors actually uses this tech to monitor a daughter when she enters and exits as nasty junction she doesn't like - she feel happier know that if she has an accident Dad will know very quickly that she never left the junction and that help can be on the way.

We haven't launched and marketed the solution - yet but we are considering it. Any thoughts?