Swedish daycare centers use GPS to track children [View All]

[The Northerner]

STOCKHOLM—Daycare centers in Sweden have started using GPS systems and other electronic tracking devices to keep tabs on children during excursions -- a practice that has raised ethical and practical questions.

Some parents are worried day care centers will use the technology to replace staff. Others wonder whether getting children used to being under surveillance could affect their idea of privacy when they grow older.

Monica Blank-Hedqvist, the principal of a daycare center in the city of Borlange told The Associated Press on Wednesday her staff have been using such devices during supervised walks in the forest: the kids wear vests with transmitters that staff can track on a screen.

"It is excellent, it has been only positive for us," Blank-Hedqvist said.

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/09/21/1506398/swedish-daycare-centers-use-gps.html