GPS Tracking For Cars

I am looking for something to help me keep track of what my kids are typing on our computers. I want something that will help me see what is being typed in webpages and the email addresses they ” claim ” they are using.

I have two children and two computers. At different times we ALL use the computers. Since my children are learning enough in school about computers they know how to delete the history and such on the computers. Before someone tells me to trust them, I feel if the school computers can log and keep logs of what they do then it is within my rights as their parent to know what they are doing. It is the same as a gps tracker on a car or on a phone . You want to know where they are going and what they are saying to help ensure they aren’t doing something wrong.

I found a freeware program( yes, preferable freeware) on the internet. It worked for a little while and then all of a sudden it stopped recording what is said it is just recording numbers. I am only interested in seeing what they are doing and saying. I do NOT want it sent to my email. I do NOT want to keep a forever log. I want to know when I walk up behind them and they hit a key quickly and everything goes off then I want to know why?

The program I found earlier was simply to monitor things on my computer NO outside computers or anything. I was able to press a special password into a notepad and then it brought up my software. But it isn’t working right.

Keeping it simple:

1. do not want anything remotely ( strickly for my home computer)

2. want something simple to open like notepad and press magic and then the program pops up.

3. Need it to be free. please

Can anyone help?

Best Answer: Best way to do this free is to

1) Create separate user accounts for your children. Rather than have them using the administrator account.

2) Look at the browser history to see what sites they have visited.

3) Get a parent control filter for sites you DEFINITELY do not want you young ones to visit.

Anything else your child does on the computer that could be risky is usually down to the internet, so just monitor that mainly. I believe some router’s may keep logs of sites visited, but using the internet browsers should suffice.

MOST IMPORTANTLY!!! Put up a list of rules for your kids to follow, so at least they know what they can or cant do. In the end, trust is the most important thing, you want them to trust you and they want you to trust them.

Any monitoring security in the end can be bypassed. so trust is the key in the long run.

in the 1990s tv show “Viper” a metitmorphing car turned into the Defender with “Gadgets” like oversied inflating on-road to off-road tires and a flying/hovering probe with a camera linked to the car and a hand held remote controle with a view monitor. the car also had 2 side compartments that held numberous things like grapling hooks and EMP balls that disabled cars dead in there tracks. My real question is, can the probe be recreated with the lightest polymers and “Cell processors” as well as lightwieght moters and GPS navigation Vidio cameras fly, function, and look as seemlesly as it did in the TV series?

Best Answer: If it could, you can bet that either the police or the military would have the technology first. It would sure make high-speed pursuit a lot easier!

They were saying that with gps in your car, you can be tracked. If you have a cell phone with you, you could be tracked. The US post office wants to put gps in all their mail carriers vehicles so their delivery carriers can be tracked. One of the biggest trucking firms in the country want to put gps in their trucks to the drivers can be tracked. They have put up cameras in different cities to keep an eye on whats going on. Most people are not aware of this.
One car insurance company wants to have their customers put a gismo in their car where the plug in for the computer diagnostic tool is plugged into, so when the drive by cell phone towers, the company can track their driving habits.
The question is……are we slowly loosing are right to privacy and some of our freedoms and don’t even realize it?
Granted these things may be for the good of the people concerned now, but couldn’t the eventually be used to control the population if the powers that be decided to use it for that purpose?

Best Answer: With the existing laws on the books and Presidential Executive Order powers YOU do not have any freedoms at all. More coming soon to a legislature near you. Read the list of executive powers if you really want to get concerned. I like the part about forcing the population into work camps.

• Of course it could. Here’s the bottom line; anything that CAN be used for good eventually WILL be used for evil. Name one thing that cannot be perverted?

  Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And governments have a lot of will. That’s why we have to remember the words of that great American, Benjamin Franklin, who observed, that those who are willing to sacrifice their liberty for a measure of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

• The British public worked this out ages ago.Britain has more cctv cameras than any other country,not cameras per head,more cameras.Our masters want us to carry biometric ID cards and expect us to pay for them.Internet sites are routinely monitored,phone calls too.Welcome to the technological new world mate.
• “are we slowly loosing are right to privacy and some of our freedoms and don’t even realize it?”

  YES………………………….

  “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
  Benjamin Franklin

  A:~)

• guess what else, every word you type on the internet can be tracked too, and every email, and every website you visit, and every phone call you make

  get out while you can!

• Yes you are. When you look at each individually it doesn’t seem like much, but cumulatively it adds up to quite a bit of tracking ability.
• It seems to me that the easiest way to cope with the situation is to not own one, or anything that contains one. I get along fine without one.
• I hadn’t heard that. Makes me think of Big Brother.
• Technology is a great thing, the Abuse of that technology is not. We need
  to send a message loud and clear to the Agencys using this tech, to back
  off of our right to Privacy rights. If your missing, and are suspected a
  victim of foul play. then by all rights use the GPS to find the last known
  location. But that is the only circumstance. I use GPS in my high country
  rescues. If a hiker or rider or visitor to our area is lost. I run the last
  know signal point. And grid out from there. Once I have the last known
  location, 200 years of experience go’s into play. long taught by my
  ancestors. I don’t lose many.

  The rest are either marketing ploys by company’s and that is just
  wrong. If a trucking company to wants to keep track of trucks and
  driver’s as long as the driver of the rig, signs off on it, go right ahead.

  A very careful balance between what is right and what is wrong needs
  to be established, along with penaltys when going the other way.

• Depends on what you do. As a social worker going into dangerous situations, I don’t mind being tracked when I am on the job. A couple of years ago, a social worker went missing while on the job. They found her rolled up in a carpet in a back alley. Mail carriers, truck drivers etc those are jobs in which you are out on your own a lot. I can see where it comes in handy.
  As for controlling the population, that is why you work to make sure the law continues to support the change in technology while upholding our privacy. Technology changes but the foundation of our principles will not. Then again may-be it can. Fear is a great motivator and fear can make people steer away from their principles. We did have that whole wire-tapping without justification happen right here in America. You are right, it is something to think about.
• Many states now have a technology for turnpikes that allows drivers to go through an “express” lane in the booths that runs up a tab and bills then monthly, instead of paying every time you use the turnpike. In Pennsylvania, this is classed the EZ-Pass.

  There was a story sometime ago about a woman with EZ-Pass who got a ticket in the mail for speeding not because a cop caught her, but because the time stamps on the EZ-Pass entries were too close together for the distance between booths if traveled at the speed limit. Due to the time stamps, they decided she was speeding and sent her a ticket in the mail.

As cars get better and better gas mileage, they have to do something.

SO the Prius drivers will pay the same as the Hummer drivers? All this ON TOP of the Cap and trade tax AND the Federal tax we already pay per gallon!
I am sure the government will not use the system to track where you go. ;-/

With the new super majority the the liberals have in DC, passing this should not be a problem.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007…

Best Answer: You of course realize that the University of Iowa Public Policy Center has nothing to do with the Federal Government right?? That the University of Iowa is an academic institution primarily funded by the State of Iowa and not a federal government agency…. you understand that too right?

And that these are pilot programs… that will exist in only a few cities…. right?

And that the people that participate STILL have to actually pay the gas taxes… you realize that too right?

You realize that this hasn’t even been by PROPOSED by the Congress right??

What is it with Conservatives and trying to stop the march of technology and progress… . when the ideas are still JUST IDEAS for solving a REAL evident problem??

Let me sum it up for you slick…. We have been paying for our roads with gasoline taxes for DECADES.

If we plan… as a nation… to move toward…. with primarily electric and natural gas vehicles (still a good idea for national security…. even if you don’t buy into global warming…. either that or T. Boone Pickens just became a “wingnut” liberal)… we still need something to drive them on.

Now….. if we have electric and natural gas vehicles in say…. 10-15 years… and the way we’re paying for our roads is still a gasoline tax…. well then we won’t have a road system to drive those vehicles on… and our economy will grind to a halt…. and this nation will CEASE to exist.

We need a system of roads and bridges…. and surprise…. they cost money. That money has to come from SOMEWHERE.

If you have any more stupid questions…. feel free to run them by me… and I will tell you WHY they are stupid before you embarrass yourself by asking them out loud.

EDIT: I loved the “i could get around this thing if they implement it” answers. Really…. like tollways that require you to have a sensor in your car…. if you DON’T have the sensor… you just get a great big ticket.

Good luck with your tax evasion legal defense fellas!

EDIT#2: Did you really just post a link to a luxury car blog…. as evidence of what the big bad government is going to do??

If you don’t see the ulterior motive there then there is no hope for you.

OF COURSE….. if we stop utilizing gasoline…. and still have a road system…. which is STILL paid for by tax dollars (as it ALWAYS has been)… then we need a way to pay for that. So yeah…. in a few years…. you will probably have both…. gas taxes paid by those who still use gas…. and mileage taxes for those that do not use gasoline.

Are you suggesting that if we no longer use gas… and therefore gas taxes are a relic…. that no one will need to get around anymore??? What about this is so hard to understand?

Maybe soon we will all have fancy flying cars…. like the one they show on your wonderful website. Now…. off to the Bentley dealership…. wait no…. I live in the real world…. not the crazy depths in the back of your skull.

This is PRECISELY how you conservatives got labeled the “party of no.” You like the roads you drive on… you don’t like paying for them…. and you have NO IDEA how that is going to be done if we stop using gasoline as the primary motor fuel…. and yet you are willing to throw stones at the bright people with the NEW IDEAS on how that might be done in the future.

Pathetic really.

• morons are running the system.

  I will buy a piece-of-crap $500 car…to go along with my $75K SUV.

  I will ONLY drive my $500 car when I need gas and to the gas station and fill up two 20 gallons jugs…drive back and fill up my SUV.

  I win!

• This is nonsense. Why do conservatives work so hard to get people angry about something that isn’t going to happen?

  Are you such anger junkies that you have to make things up to get angry about?

  Life must suck for you.

• Wonder how that would work in my `69 Mustang….Hmmmmm….I know every inch of it and would know where to “drop off” the device as I use the car….I`m not worried.

Picked this up from another forum, translated from SOS Madeleine site.
“Des méthodes criminelles”

“L’incendie de la voiture de Sergey Malinka et les mouchards GPS sous les voitures de Robert Murat et Michaela Walczuch sont pris très au sérieux par la Police Judiciaire qu’y voit des méthodes criminelles et à ouvert deux enquêtes parallèles au dossier Madeleine McCann.

Ce n’est pas la premiére fois que les inspecteurs ont connaissance de l’existence de pressions, intimidations et menaces à l’encontre de plusieurs témoins.”

Criminal methods.

The burning of Sergey Malinka’s car and the GPS tracking devices under Robert Murat’s and Michaela Walczuch’s cars are being taken very seriously by the PJ, who see criminal methods there and have opened two parallel investigations on the Madeleine McCann file.

This is not the first time that the inspectors have known the existence of pressure, intimidation and threats against several witnesses.

“Les journalistes ne sont pas exception et divers professionnels ont été la cible de méthodes similaires.

Selon une source de la police, les mouchards GPS placés sous les voitures de Robert Murat et de Michaela Walczuch, n’ont pas été placées par aucun service ou departement des autorités portugaises et les appareils ont été achetés au départ de l’Espagne.”

Journalists are not an exception and various professionals have have been the target of similar methods.

According to a police source, the GPS tracking devices placed under the cars of Robert Murat and Michaela Walczuch were not placed by any service or department of the Portuguese authorities and the equipment was bought somewhere in Spain.

Best Answer: Something very sinister going on here Jack. This fiasco has gone on long enough and it’s time the police took a positive stand and put an end to it all .The McCanns are the main suspects in this case yet they are allowed to give the impression that they are in charge of the whole case. They manipulate and sue the media,they refuse to co operate with the questioning,they intimidate witnesses,they have received the most protection than anyone in criminal history and it’s time the team McCann were made to answer questions. We now read that the reason why the Portuguese prosecutor has dis allowed the reinterviewing of the McCanns is because he says there is no point because they will refuse to cooperate just as they did in PDL. So the PJ obviously know they are lying but now have to prove it by interviewing the rest of the Tapas gang. It is also reported that the PJ have returned computers and personal items to Murat so perhaps they think he is in the clear.Given the MCs track record I wouldn’t put it past them to be involved in this car bugging and car explosion event. The media and govts part in this affair has been despicable.Why are the Mcs so important they need to be protected?

• I’ve always thought there’s bigger wheels in this case than we know of. The McCanns have powerful connections, who or why, I don’t know but certainly powerful enough to intimidate the media. I truly hope the PJ can uncover the truth in this case and the truth about Madeleine is heard.
• So what ! I would not hesitate to do the same thing.
  Whats the big deal Jack ?
• There are few surprises in this case, me thinks justice is waiting just around the corner for some,.