Current Event

Current event
For my current event I brought in an article about a cell phone with the Google locater ap. A guy who had the ap on his Smartphone, got his car stolen. While the car was taken the cell phone was inside the car. The man was able to use the internet and settings on his account to find his car and the feath.
I asked the class whether or not they felt this development in technology was a good one. On one hand the [person was able to recover his car and phone. On the other, this story could have gone the other way. If it did, the feath would have been able to take more from the victim. When people have these phones, they do a lot of personal stuff o n them. The feath could have accessed the victim’s bank account and other personal information.
When I asked the class what they though, this came up. We did discuss negative effects like this, but for the most part the class felt this was a good ap. If the person had not had this locater on his phone he may never have found his phone. He could have found his car and phone without it, but it would have taken much longer. It also came down to luck that he found his car but did not have any of his accounts hacked or information stolen. What I took from this piece of news is that ever new technology has its positive improvements, but also has a downside to the situations they are used in.