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Emperor1956 -> RE: GPS chip (1/26/2008 12:19:11 PM)
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If you are at all interested in this, first you might figure out what you are talking about. Most of the posts have NOTHING to do with GPS or other positioning tracking -- people are confusing ID chipping (like what you do to a pet) with position / travel tracking. So a brief primer:
ID Chipping is putting a scannable (usually by a short range radio or magnetic ID scanner) chip under the skin of the subject animal so that if the animal is lost, it can be identified by the information in the chip. The animal and the scanner have to be in the same location. So this would help you find your property -- be it bovine (micro ID chipping has pretty much replaced cattle branding), canine and feline (all our pets are chipped), avian (so are our birds) or human (I've not chipped any of my human property, but in theory, if I'm comfortable doing so, why not?) . ID chipping will do nothing if your property is stolen, or wanders off, however.
By the way, you can pretty much achieve the same ID functions by barcoding your submissive, tatooing an ID card on him/her, or otherwise putting ID information on/in your property (permanent Sharpie?). Many people who use inventory scanning devices believe that RFID (radio-frequency Identification) tags are the wave of the future, as these allow passive monitoring of information from hundreds of feet away -- the small devices broadcast ID information over a local frequency radio band to the receiver. By the way, there is an RFID/GPS combination device but how that works, and what it does, is more than I feel like typing right now.
Position / travel tracking is done by a GPS device that locates itself by reference to some of the dozen or so geosynchronous satellites in orbit around the Earth (by the way, this only works on the Earth -- if your subbie regularly visits Mars, for example (and so many apparently do), you are SOL when he/she is off-Earth). There are commonly two types of positioning devices: recording, which send a history of where the chip (and the person/object "carrying it" has been, and "real time" which allow for monitoring of location, but do not record the data. A classic "real time" is the car-based navigation system, which tells you where you are at any given moment, but unless the signal is being monitored from a remote location, no history is recorded. Note that there are "real time" systems that send data as often as every 15 seconds, however, so a "real time" device sending to a recording laptop (for example) or an obsessive Dominant who never looks away from his/her screen (a more likely example) is essentially a recording device.
Use of a GPS or similar tracking device without the owner of the property's consent is illegal in most States (see, e.g. Cal Penal Code 637.7). I would think before you play this kink, you had better get a consent form from your submissive, as "ownership" of one human by another is rarely recognized in law. Right now, implantable microchips that provide GPS tracking are pretty much the provenance of military contractors (they are out there, but they are pricey and usually implanting them requires a licensed surgical device). But there are small, easily carried devices for about $400 that will track and send r/t data. For me, I'd use that money to put her in a really nice corset...but each to his or her own.
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