Great idea, astonishingly bad implementation

So we know this has been in the works for some time: mobile phone companies (in this case Sprint) were going to capitalize on their ability to use GPS and/or cell-phone towers to triangulate your position to report where you are. This started out being a service offered by third parties, but it makes sense that the phone cos themselves would figure out how to squeeze them out. They're marketing this to parents and it seems like a not egregious problem - if the kid wants a cell phone, the parent uses it to find them.

The problem is, it looks like Sprint hasn't built any sort of safety feature into the tracking capability. One can enter a phone number into their list of numbers to be tracked, and so it is. Obviously, they should have an invitation system so your probing can be refused, otherwise all the roided out ex-boyfriends with baseball bats behind the front seats of their Mustangs, and the crazy, manipulative, mascara-smeared ex-girlfriends will have a field day at 3:30 am when you're still not home from your third date with someone so much better than the previous wacko who's currently driving to the new person's house.

At least this will spread privacy concerns from the 25 and above crowd down to the kids in their teens and early twenties; raising awareness of collective threat through personal experience.

I'm just glad I'm out of the dating scene. (Insert joke here.)