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More Parents Ready to Track their Kids
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on Thursday August 16, @02:10PM
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All Points Blog links to a short article on parents more and more likely to track their kids. From the article: "Forty-two per cent of the parents surveyed, all with children under the age of 13, said they would be interested and willing to pay for services that would allow them to track the whereabouts of their children. [...] In addition, just over one-quarter (26 per cent) of mobile users aged 18 to 24 said they would be interested in mobile social networking apps based on the location of their friends. But the use of some location-based services already available remains low. Just three per cent of mobile users surveyed said they use mobile navigation tech such as maps or turn-by-turn navigation."
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