Today, “for the children”. Tomorrow, for all of us:

Posted on April 10, 2012 by KG

Call for spyware on kids’ phones
‘Spy software could be installed on all New Zealand cell phones for $200,000, a coroner has heard during the inquest into the death of a Rotorua teenager who killed herself after getting threatening text messages…’

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10 Responses to Today, “for the children”. Tomorrow, for all of us:

  1. Diamond Mair says:
    April 10, 2012 at 13:45

    The Progeny’s been going through some “issues” due to differences with friends/family of her fiancee ……………………………… they’re HIS issues, but he’s used HER phone {for texting} and so she’s become enmeshed in the middle ………………………………. now, she’s 31, so “Mom” has to be supportive but not intrusive – although she DID ask to borrow ‘Ms. Mossberg’ if she has to spend time alone …………………………….. :gunner :grin:

    Semper Fi’
    DM

  2. oswald bastable says:
    April 10, 2012 at 14:50

    It’s headed for a competition as to who gets hung first- the lawyers or the coroners…

  3. Darin says:
    April 10, 2012 at 14:52

    After reading the article twice in disbelief I have to ask- :wtf

    “Hayley-Ann, 15, took her own life after her “first love”, 27-year-old Pelesasa Tiumalu, broke up with her. She killed herself shortly after receiving a text message she thought was from Tiumalu, telling her “Go Kill yourself, I don’t care”.”

    So we have a 15y/o girl in a sexual relationship with a 27y/o married “man” and the best they can come up with is we need spyware on our cellphones?Really???

    Where were her parents/guardians?Must we raise generations of children without spines?Poor girl never stood a chance,sad that our culture has become so seriously screwed up.

  4. Humai says:
    April 10, 2012 at 18:31

    I don’t know what’s scarier:

    1) The already discussed Big Brother connotations of this “spyware” being installed on every phone in NZ. Text messages I’ve sent my mates in jest would certainly have triggered the alarm in the darkened control room with TV monitors on the wall full of goons armed with pump action shotguns;
    2) The fact that modern day inquests invite software companies to pitch their wares, including pricing information mind you, under the guise of “giving evidence”. Someone please tell me where I can form a queue to promote my company’s capabilities at the next high profile inquest?
    3) The fact that the company that has developed the spyware product would saturate the entire NZ market for a lousy $200K deal.

  5. KG says:
    April 10, 2012 at 18:39

    Yes indeed, Humai. “The fact that modern day inquests invite software companies to pitch their wares..”
    Quite. As an “expert witness” I’d have thought there was a clear conflict of interest there. But then, Coroner’s courts in NZ have been something of a joke and a farce for a while now.

  6. dondiego says:
    April 10, 2012 at 18:58

    Diversity Dividend strikes again-