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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (73494)	9/27/2004 6:24:56 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 794104

Thanks for the link and your explanation. Obviously with today's technology it would be impossible to track lost or kidnapped victims in remote areas. I can only assume then that the lost Korean child had a passive id chip embedded, someone found her and she was scanned. Does a GPS device hand off from one transmitter to another when a person is traveling by car and wants to map their route in unknown territory within an urban area? And how do these devices transmit a location if you're hiking on K-2? I know there is allot of controversy surrounding human tracking, but we aren't far off. None too soon for military and others with a mission in dangerouse regions imo. networkusa.org Widespread tracking of human beings is not far away. The Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency recently awarded Eagle Eye Technologies (Oak Hill, Va.) a contract to build a bracelet-sized mobile terminal designed for compatibility with existing satellite communication systems. The contract is overseen by the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command at Huntsville, Ala. Suggested uses, according to Eagle Eye, include "tracking Alzheimer's patients, children, executives, probationers and parolees, and military personnel"-a market that could conceivably encompass the world's entire populace in just a few decades. I would be interested in learning how current GPS devices track positions, but that is for another thread. ;) M