GPS Tracking Device ..
CRITERION A: PRESENTATION OF THE ISSUE
GPS devises have been very controversial lately. There have been claims that bosses of some companies have been stalking their staff with GPS devises. As a result, some of the employees have claimed that their privacy has been invaded, and this has affected not only their work life but also their social life. This invasion of privacy has even lead to the suicide of a Telstra linesman last year.
The article provides facts about this state or the arch technology, and how it is of good and bad use for companies. Also the affects on the employee knows that they are monitored. Some bosses use this device without informing his employee’s this really shows him who is doing his work and who isn’t. This is a bad way to monitor employees because it means that the boss is not honest with his/her employee’s. Employee’s should be informed before monitored, but not in a way that will make them uncomfortable and under pressure while working.
CRITERION B: THE IT BACKROUND OF THE ISSUE
Global Positioning System (GPS) is comprised of 24 U.S. government owned satellites that circle 12,000 miles above the earth, twice a day in precise orbits, so that several are always in view from any position. The system is designed to provide worldwide positioning services with an accuracy ranging from 10 to 15 meters. Instant location information enables users to ascertain exactly where their vehicles or assets are at anytime, anywhere in the world. Due to minor timing errors and satellite orbit errors, however, more precise accuracies are unattainable with standard GPS. Atmospheric conditions can also affect GPS signals and their arrival time on Earth.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S. space-based radio navigation system that provides reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services to civilian users on a continuous worldwide basis -- freely available to all. For anyone with a GPS receiver, the system will provide location and time. GPS provides accurate location and time GPS provides accurate location and time information for an unlimited number of people in all weather, day and night, anywhere in the world.
The GPS is made up of three parts: satellites orbiting the Earth; control and monitoring stations on Earth; and the GPS receivers owned by users. GPS satellites broadcast signals from space that are picked up and identified by GPS receivers. Each GPS receiver then provides three-dimensional location (latitude, longitude, and altitdue) plus the time.
CRITERION C: THE IMPACT OF THE ISSUE
Last month, 26-year-old Rebecca Griego was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend, Jonathan Rowan, as she sat in her administrative office at the University of Washington. Rowan had previously threatened to harm Griego, her sister, and their dogs, and she had gotten a restraining order. She'd also passed out pictures of him to her co-workers so they could serve Rowan the order if he showed up at the campus. And she'd moved to a new apartment and started working from home for two weeks before her death. None of this, of course, helped her.
What might have? In fact, Washington had a good tool in place: a state law that allows judges to impose electronic monitoring as a condition of a restraining order. When judges so order, the police can keep tabs on abusers with a technology best known to people who are bad with directions: the global positioning system.
Just as GPS can find a lost driver, it can also alert cops and targets whenever a domestic-violence offender enters a restricted zone, like the area surrounding a woman's home or office. Police put an electronic bracelet on the batterer that sends a signal to computer servers at headquarters if he goes anywhere he shouldn't. Then, if he violates a restraining order, they can call the woman to let her know that he is on his uninvited way. The idea is to buy women crucial time, even if it's only minutes, so they can get away. The notification loop also kicks in if the offender tries to remove or deactivate the bracelet.
This is a perfect example explaining the advantages of GPS monitoring device system. How ever I mentioned previously how dangerous the GPS tracking systems can be, as they caused to the death of a linesman in Telstra. The source below explains the death of Mr.Dousset.
TELSTRA is facing another legal claim involving an employee suicide.
The family of Telstra linesman Leon Dousset believe pressures at work contributed to his decision to take his own life in March.
The tragedy followed the suicide in January of call-centre worker Sally Sandic, who was stressed by the telco's demands, her parents claimed.
Mr Dousset, 52, a father of five, was on leave because of stress and depression when he killed himself at his Somerville property.
CRITERION D: SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE ISSUE
Solutions to problems like this are very difficult to state, because each employee has a different issue with this gps monitoring system. Some don’t mind being monitored after work hours and some do. The bosses have to balance between their employees so every employee is happy and fully understands that he is monitored.
CRITERION E: SELECTION AND USE OF SOURCES
-"Business Story." www.news.com. 15 Nov. 2008
-Richards, Micheal. "gps system." GoPass. 15 Nov. 2008
