On a personal note, growing up was very difficult with my parents.  They are classic cases of the over protective, helicopter parents.  Many people hear that and shake their heads saying that I exaggerate.  To put it into perspective I have always had honor roll grades, played varsity sports, and managed a job 6 nights of the week for the entire duration of my high school career.  I was never the one to rebel and go out and party and be a crazy teenager.  I just didn’t have the time!  However, my parents still didn’t support my freedom.  To this day, an independent 18-year-old college student, still has a strict 10:00 curfew at home and my parents have made several surprise visits to UNH to check on me.  To be clear, I love my parents and I am far from the weird girl that didn’t have any friends.  I’ve had boyfriends, won superlatives, and got invited to all the best places with multiple friend groups.  I also took that saying “it’s better to beg for forgiveness, then ask permission” very to heart and grew up into my own person.  

I was about a sophomore in high school when my parents began tracking my phone and reading my text messages behind my back.  Just last month they begged me to sign a contract that would give the phone companies permission to shut my phone off at certain speeds, like if I was in a car, and be able to go onto the internet to see all the apps, pictures, emails, and text messages that I was accessing on my phone at any given time.  These are extreme examples but I feel that they show just to what extent some people are willing to go to track people and be in their lives.  No matter where I was, at work or at a movie, I was always looking behind my shoulder for my parents and it held me back from many experiences I wish I had had.  If I did anything on my own without telling them I was a case of nerves that found it incapable to truly enjoy life like everyone else. 

If congress were to pass a bill that required ID chips in children under the age of 5 I would not support it.  I recognize the benefits and peace of mind that come with knowing where your child is at all times but I will fight that as hard as I can.  Horrible things can happen but that does not give any one the right to track everywhere you go and everything you do no matter what the circumstances.  It handicaps the individual in multiple ways and puts them at risk not only mentally, but physically if that technology was to fall in the wrong hands.   Having tracking devices in shoes is one thing because the person wearing them can take them off at their own free will.  If a tracking device were to be inserted into somebodies body they are stripped of true independence and goes against their constitutional rights.  I find it morally wrong, at the very least, and will stand by my position on the subject no matter the situation.