For only $3.99 per month, OnStar customers can now track drivers of their vehicles. They can tell where you are, how fast you drove, where you stopped, and how long you stopped there.
But noooo, that's not over the line.
Sure, concerned parents can use it to monitor their kids. Psychos can use it to stalk their significant others. Law enforcement and OnStar have the ability to go way beyond our expectation of privacy. We don't just have to look at this service, but how it can be used against us, because that is inevitable. For every alibi verified, or teen spared from teen stupidity, how many will be snooped without knowledge or permission?
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. There are apps and other ways to show a person's location, there is no need to give even further intrusion. You can slap a sticker on it that says concerned parent, but I'm not buying it.
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