March 24th, 2009

Zoombak tracking device raises questions about privacy and safety

By Joshua Melvin, Palo Alto Daily News

After Stella escaped from the yard of her Los Altos home for the third time, her owner decided she needed a way to track the husky-mix dog...

"Now you have cheap surveillance...think of how easy this makes it for an ex who wants to harass somebody or a neighbor who wants to get some dirt on you," said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights watchdog group

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