I Assure You We're Safe

Parents, your children’s safety has just increased ten fold! Well, if you live in the Merion School District that is, because apparently when your child enrolls they use a laptop to monitor their behavior. Salvation for all the lazy parents that think that school is just a day care center for their children! This sort of thing just freaks me right on out. It’s under the guise of protecting the children, but I like to call it ensuring loyalty. Not that I’m a big 1984 fan or anything like that =-P

Interestingly, I heard a commercial for something called Safe Link. I won’t link to it because I do not want to contribute to any page hits they get; however, I’ll tell you all about it! Safe Link Wireless isn’t terribly new apparently. It’s been in production since early last year; however, the commercial was definitely new to me. Basically, you get a government funded call phone with an allotment of minutes per month and voicemail (for free!).

I wonder how safe it is to use that phone. Do you think that the government can listen in on that phone whenever they want without any risk of a litigation? I wonder, maybe I’m being paranoid. I can just see this being used (it’s targeted at a demographic that has a statistical likelihood of participating in illegal activities) as a way to more easily capture criminals and spy upon the law abiding citizen. And really, do they need to make it any easier than it already happens to be now? Jeez. I know someone that has one of these phones and they talk about all manner of things that would build a very accurate picture of their daily activities, illicit or not.

I don’t think the government should be funding big business, I’m pretty sure everyone is sick of that, and Tracfone (the provider that was listed in the commercial) does some pretty decent business last time I checked. They have over 12 million customers according to some googling I did. Disheartening.

Yah, I like it with the glasses on.