Mar
29
2008
South Korean police aiming to equip all new handsets with GPS?
Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech
Taking a note from Japan, it’s being reported that South Korean police are backing a highly controversial plan that would equip each new mobile sold in the nation with a GPS chip. Reportedly, Song Kang-ho, chief of the investigation agency of the National Police Bureau, has stated that the government has “already submitted a related bill to the National Assembly,” and the general idea here’s to crack down on the rise of kidnapping and various other crimes against kids and women. Granted, there’s not a lot of supporting evidence that this is actually set to go down, so until we see it inked in stone, our skeptic hats are remaining in place.
[Via textually, image courtesy of The New York Times]
