Global Positioning Systems are accurate and useful in rescue operations and facilitate criminal investigations. As much as these systems try to bring justice to our society, it also creates concerns about a breach of privacy (International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling et al., 2008). Mass tracking of people and their GPS enabled gadgets is a breach of individual privacy which is a violation of the law. Tracking of people through the aid of GPS makes people live in fear and feel uncomfortable.
Everyone is entitled to privacy; being tracked provokes this entitlement and thus brings about a major issue. Moreover, the use of mass tracking of employees by employers can result in a big issue of mistrust. Employees being tracked by their employees feel insecure and uncomfortable which as a result creates mistrusts. People tend to prefer keeping their privacy to themselves this includes their whereabouts, their secrets, and their lifestyle therefore upon noticing that they are being tracked results in chaos.
Mass tracking of people using GPS may not be helpful especially during search and rescues in the event of a disaster or emergency (Ruth, Buotte, & Quigley, 2010). For instance in an event of a flooding, tracking individuals using GPS in their GPS-enabled devices can be elusive and ineffective since the gadgets may be spoilt due to the water or swept away by water to a different location away from the person thus misleading the rescue mission from saving the person being searched to be rescued and instead tracking a stray gadget and eventually end up losing lives.