ICT Issues Electronic Monitoring

1. By Brad and Alex. ICT IssuesElectronic Monitoring

2. Stakeholders. • Criminals • Emergency services. • Car Racing teams • Public transport Providers • IT departments • Parents • Motorists • People who head out bush. • Schools • Spies

3. Why is it an issue? • Electronic Monitoring has been spreading due the popularity of new technology such as wireless communications GPS and the shrinking size of cameras. Software can ID a single person in a crowd and growing size of storage devices enabling a vast amount of information to be processed quickly.

4. Positive Impacts • Electronic monitoring has its benefits: • It has made finding criminals who have been on the run can have their phones bugged and can have them traced. • It enables staff to oversee what an employee is doing to ensure they are not doing anything other than their task at hand. • Children can be tracked with their phones and with a GPS tracker in their shoes. • The Emergency services can also use GPS to get to the scene faster.

5. Positive Impacts • CCTV can deter criminals from performing crime such as Robbery, theft and Assault. Act and can be used to ID the perpetrators of crimes. It can provide real time information to people and staff on how far away their train(GPS and the Position of train System) tram(Tram tracker and tram monitoring systems) and bus (SMARTBUS). It also enables car racing(Such as F1’s and V8 supercars) to provide telemetry for the car and can they can see where the car is on the track to other cars.

6. Negative Impacts • People can spy on other people and can result in the persons ID to be stolen. • Printed objects such as timetables and maps may become obsolete. • Privacy goes out the window as people can read your emails and listen in on phone conversations without your permission. • The technology can be misused(Such as peeping toms)

7. Negative Impacts. • Things such as Google Earth and Street view can reveal things that people don’t want seen. • People may not like to be watched or recorded. • People can leech off Wifi networks that don’t belong to them. • Things have become so small that finding them is a difficult task.