Verizon Offers to Be Your Kids’ Chaperone

June 12, 2006 By Geoff Duncan

Verizon Offers to Be Your Kids

Verizon is launching a new Chaperone service, enabling parents to keep tabs on their kids's LG Migo phones.

First it was Disney offering special phones parents could use to keep tabs on their wayward progeny; now Verizon Wireless is getting in on the act, launching a new Chaperone service which leverages GPS technology build into LG Migo cellular phones to create two new service offerings for parents:

Chaperone Child Locator enables parents to locate their child’s phone from a PC via the Chaperone Web Site, or using their own mobile phone via a Chaperone mobile application available from Verizon’s Get It Now virtual store. Parents can issue one-time requests for a the location of a child’s phone and have it displayed on a map. Parents can aso program the Migo phone’s dedicated automatic calling buttons over the air using the Chaperone Web site, or customize other Chaperone settings.

Chaperone Child Zone enables parents to designate an area called a Child Zone around locations which are part of a child’s daily routine

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Jenn Honeycutt at 2:43pm 24th January 2007 Have you watched the news lately. This is not about trust. My son has not given me any reason to not trust him. This is about being able to locate my child if someone takes them. Young adults(teens) need to pick the lesser of 2 evils. We as parents usually don't just jump into not trusting our children. They usually have proven they are not trustworthy. Remember, we were once kids. Some of us a little wild. I would rather my child hate me and be safe then have his freedom from parental spies and be missing for years or worse dead. Maybe if this technology was available, Sean Hornbeck wouldn't have been missing for 4 1/2 years.
Tim Stevens at 12:50pm 27th December 2006 It's not that bad of an idea for parents who are paranoid and dont trust their kids.
jessica at 9:08am 26th December 2006 this is the most stupidest thing i ever heard of. you minus well put a tracking device in your kids ass so you can locate them especially if their teens