Feminists Unhappy About GPS in Lingerie
GPS is used to track cars, airplanes and even bombs, but did you know that it can even keep tabs on your lovers ?
A new high-tech lingerie set by Brazilian maker Lucia Lorio comes with a GPS tracker for insecure lovers, but Lorio says the technology could also conceivably enhance personal protection.
The lingerie set comes with a bikini bottom, fake pearl necklace and a see-through lace bodice. The GPS unit is embedded in the waist area of the bodice and constantly updates the wearer’s position through mobile phone networks. Position information is accessed through a password-protected webpage, but the wearer can go incognito by turning the GPS off or by simply not giving out the web password.
Lorio told the DailyMail newspaper that her lingerie is targeted at the "techno-savvy woman", but women’s rights groups are fuming. Claudia Burghart, an organzier for a Berlin feminist group believes the lingerie turns women into virtual slaves and told the newspaper that its a modern-day equivalent of a "chastity belt."
So far, Lorio has only sold a few of the garments, but she believes the lingerie could sell very well in violence-prone countries like Brazil. Kidnapping is a big problem in Brazil and according to recent statistics, one person is kidnapped in Sao Paulo every two days. Conceivably this GPS-enabled lingerie could help authorities find the victims much quicker. We can see it now ... a national database of Brazilian lingerie.
Lorio’s GPS lingerie currently retails for approximately $785.
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maybe if Madeleine had this (or similar) she wouldnt be missing!
This technology would be great for such applications as kids\people who suffer from memory loss etc...
stephenstern >
It would help the lost and forgetful, but for more serious things it wouldn’t stop the evil people in the world.
Simply striping the victim would make it useless and I wouldn’t want a tag injected into my child.
Yesterday, I read the most awful story about Kidnappers in Mexico killing a five-year-old boy by injecting his heart with acid after his family sought police help.
These people would hack or cut out the tracker.
Tracking is much like any sort of DRM, it doesn't work, when very simple things break the model.
Can you clone the tracker? Yes.
Could the clone be used to commit a crime and pin it on someone else? Yes.
If they aren't happy then dont buy or use it!
Personally I think it's a good idea, and if they did mens versions I'd still think its a good idea!
There is a market for devices and things like this, so why not make them for the people who want them?!