Find My Kids app is basically AirTags for your offspring
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Well, as the hackneyed marketing slogan goes, there's an app for that.
It's called Find My Kids, and this week it announced a new collaboration with Apple Watch. It claims to be the first third-party developer's child safety app approved for integration by Apple on its popular, wearable smart device.
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"Once installed on an Apple Watch, the child-safety application works autonomously, with or without the child's phone connected. This is the first time an Apple Watch device can share its location with phones outside the Apple ecosystem," the company said in a helpful media missive.
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The app is designed for children of six years and older so the [4]developers clearly imagine it is possible that a seven-year-old could be the proud owner of Apple's eponymous wrist-based device, which can start from around $400 new.
Taking another bold leap into our collective dystopian future, Find My Kids includes a built-in pedometer. And there's more. "In order to motivate children to do some physical activity, the app for Apple Watch has a gamified Pedometer which encourages children to walk more throughout the day," the company explained.
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Quite where they are expected to walk in a world so dangerous it requires them to be virtually connected to their parents at all times, we don't know, but parents who can afford an Apple Watch for each child must have extensive grounds surrounding their homes, presumably with electric fencing punctuated by watchtowers.
A side benefit for parents is that they will get to review their child's whereabouts over a 30-day history, specifically important to establishing life-long trusted relationships between generations.
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The Find My Kids app will trigger Critical Notification, which rings a loud signal to tell parents that their child could be in trouble, even if their phone is turned off.
The app's collab with Apple Watch comes the same week as the launch of the Rezvani Vengeance SUV – which [10]includes pepper spray-enabled rear-view mirrors, underbody explosion shielding and bulletproof glass , which looks like, but isn't, an SNL parody.
Vadikh Giniatulin, CEO at Find My Kids, says: "Our company's mission is to make sure parents raise happy kids in a safe environment. We're constantly ensuring the best performance of our product, so any integration with the latest gadgets is just a matter of time."
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In a world where every piece of IT kit – including Apple's – is accompanied by [12]less than perfect security , it's tempting to add to the app maker's moniker. Find My Kids — before somebody else does™. ®
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"built-in pedometer"
So, it'll tell me how far Rolf Harris or Gary Glitter is from my kids?
I was going to write something snarky about Russian spyware, but decided not to
But still
Your little six year old can take a 9mm to school.
Re: But still
A ban on unaccompanied minors carrying guns has just been defeated in the Missouri state senate.
Words fail me
Find my kid's watch
At least you'll be able to track the watch after your child has been mugged for it.
Re: Find my kid's watch
or at least until the perp does a factory reset or wraps it in tinfoil
Find My Dog! ... And The Dog's Personal iPhone Does Not Need To Be Switched On........
Yup........if you are paranoid about Fido's whereabouts....we have a $500 (...or was that $1000) solution for you.....
....next up.....something really small that you can use to track your parrot...........
Re: Find My Dog! ... And The Dog's Personal iPhone Does Not Need To Be Switched On........
Yup there's an ad on Tv for that just now. It's just a gps tag and an app so I suppose you can wrap the tag around the brat's neck instead of the dog's. No IWatch needed.
I did not do latin in school.
A pedometer - just how many children do you have to have before you need machinery to count them?
Also I'll just leave this here: [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)
Bad move to know too much
So very, very glad that this tech was not available when I was young. So good that my parents did not know all of my whereabouts and actions...
I may have turned out half good/half bad (depends on your perspective and BOFH understandings you get from non-peers), but that was surely not caused by me not being tracked for my every move.
The question we all should ask ourselves: Why? Not everything we can do we also should do. Please, think of the children and let them be children.
Re: Bad move to know too much
Been there, done that.
We would probably have found a way to disable the device anyway. It was also simpler times, when people weren't afraid of everything.
Re: Bad move to know too much
There was some tracking when we were kids. Most people for a wide radius (for a kid) knew who the local kids we were and would step in if we needed help (plaster for grazed knees) or caused any mischief (clip round the ear for kicking the ball against the house of a bloke on night shift and unacceptable* scrumping come to mind). Our mum, dad or nan would find out sooner or later where we'd been and what we'd been up to and in the case of serious mischief there was the anxious wait for the second clip round the ear. It seemed to work OK and meant that parents of our generation were more willing to let us roam fairly far and wide because adults were less wary of looking out for kids.
*unacceptable due to the quantity repeatedly scrumped because we were selling the apples to buy fireworks. Acceptable scrumping went largely unpunished apart from being shouted at or being chased by the odd dog.
Stranger Danger!!!!
And now, well, we're gonna let the strangers track 'em everywhere they go.
Trust me on this, it will be less than a year before someone punches a hole in this thing so that *anyone* can get the tracking data.
That said, when I were young there were summer days where I'd pack a backpack with snacks and drinkables, hop on my bike and vanish for the day, back for dinner or thereabouts.
All I ask of mine, is that they let me know periodically that they are still breathing and if they'll be home for dinner, and if not, who they're eating with.
Marketing Genius!
I wonder how long it will take the Apple Law Team to bust down the front door and ask for their cut...
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