New Israeli Development: Anti Abduction GPS ID Tag

New Israeli Development: Anti Abduction GPS ID Tag

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The abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinians terrorists working with Hamas in June last year has inspired Amit Saban, a 16 year old Israeli teen, to develop a smart ID tag that can alert authorities instantly the ID and location of a person in distress.

The ID tag is a small metal plate hanging around a soldier’s neck which states their name and personal number for identification in case of death of injury. Saban has developed a Start-Up that upgrades the existing ID tag into a smart one using a built-in GPS. The project is designed to help soldiers and civilians in distress and even prevent abductions, when by pressing the tag, the persons information will be sent to the IDF and their parents via software. Saban’s project has earned him first place in a Google Youth Start-Up contest but he claims that the idea wasn’t created in order to make money, but to help save human lives.

Although the Israeli police has received an emergency call from one of the teens who were abducted only several minutes after the three were put inside the Palestinian car, security services could not locate their whereabouts, as Israeli law forbids tracking citizens’ cellular phones due to privacy issues. Instead of that, after the terrible case of the three teens being abducted, around 60,000 Israelis download a distress app which dials automatically to the emergency dispatch and operates an emergency signal with the user’s location. There is no doubt that many more people, at least in Israel, will prefer giving up a little more of their privacy in order to allow a shorter response time from emergency and rescue services, thus increasing the chances of rescuing them should the need arise.

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