To some jittery parents, that voicemail
rollover might as well be a death rattle when trying to check-in on their untethered teenagers. In an age of unfettered
options for tracking your human of choice,
it’s no surprise to find a US patent filed by Sony Ericsson that will turn an unanswered cellphone into an
eavesdropping device. The “call override feature” would automatically answer the phone from any flagged phone number
(like that of a parent) allowing the caller to listen-in and then communicate over the phone’s loudspeaker with whoever
might be within ear-shot. The filing also calls for the ability to disable this auto-answer mode by entering a PIN
which would allow parents to always monitor their kids while grandma could still whoop it up at BINGO without her
handbag shouting “Ma, you ok! MAA!?” Seems something like this is just going to create more problems on that
slippery-slope of control than it will assuage given spotty coverage, tech-savy teens, forgetful elders, and any number
of valid reasons to be disconnected.
[Via SmartMobs]
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