Location Tracking

Some people have suggested implanting computer chips into children to track them if they get lost, the same way that veterinarians do for pets and animals.  I think that this is an awful idea.  People are already capable of tracking us by way of our phones and computers, but this would absolutely breach our privacy rights and weaken our security.  Children would be completely trackable, and therefore have no privacy.  However, it doesn't stop there.  Who would be able to track these children?  People who are smart (and scary) enough could track them and this could facilitate kidnapping and murders. Your child would never be safe, and his or her identity and location would never be private.  The ability to track a lost child is not worth the risk of losing your child in the first place.  Sure, you could then easily track a kidnapped child, but what happens when it is too late? What happens when that chip is what got the kid kidnapped to begin with?  I think this is a scary concept, and sure parents may have the right to implant these chips, but I don't think it is wise.  I don't think it is a good idea for teenagers either.  That is what good parenting is for.  Provide your teenagers with a cell phone, a curfew, rules, open dialogue, etc.  Don't place a chip in them that makes them trackable to any stranger.  I think this is scary stuff, and there is no way that I would support it if there was a bill in Congress to require ID chips in children under the age of five.  As far as tracking seniors who are forgetful or who have alzheimers, I can definitely see the benefits.  However, I still believe that this is wrong, unless the adult gives permission (while in a healthy state before alzheimers) for a chip to be implanted under this condition.