Questions to Consider While Reading the Related Articles
- What freedoms or privacy rights does the system affect?
- What is the benefit of the system?
- How would you feel if you were monitored by the system?
- Would you feel comfortable using the system to monitor someone else?
- How do the benefits balance with the loss of privacy? Is the loss worth the cost?
- Notice that the targets of these programs are either students or senior citizens. What do you make of the focus of these systems?
- What other ways are monitoring systems used in America? How do the systems in these articles compare to them
- Create a scale that outlines how you feel about tracking and monitoring. What should always be monitored? What should never be monitored? What falls in-between? Explain how you decide where to place things on the scale.