Jalopnik Snap Judgment: Just because something can be built does not mean it should be built. While we're sure there are some noble uses for this product, we can't think of any. It's built for spying and stalking, and as such will be used almost exclusively to foster distrust and paranoia among families, lovers and employees. Think about it: What's the most conniving, illicit way you can come up with to use the GPS Tracking Key? Drop your filthy ideas into the comments and enjoy the full press release below.

NAPA Dealers Add GPS Tracking Key to Their Automotive Product Line

CARY, Ill., Sept. 2 — LandAirSea Systems, Inc. has announced that they have begun distributing the increasingly popular GPS Tracking Key to NAPA automotive dealers across the country. NAPA has been a long time supplier of replacement parts, accessories and service items to the automotive repair industry and they are confident that the Tracking Key will be a profitable addition to their inventory.

About the Tracking Key:

The award winning GPS Tracking Key is a small, pocket sized device that receives signals from the twenty-four Department of Defense satellites orbiting the earth. Its internal computer determines the GPS location of a vehicle and records detailed travel activities such as times of departure, routes traveled, speed of vehicle and duration of stops. The recorded data can then be displayed with Google Earth(R) over a street map, satellite images or in a text report. Among the growing list of consumers for this device are parents of teenage drivers who have found it to be a helpful tool in keeping track of their teens' whereabouts. By making the GPS Tracking Key available to its customers, NAPA is hoping to attract this most recent category of buyer.

About NAPA

The National Automotive Parts Association (NAPA) was founded over 80 years ago to meet America's growing need for a national auto parts distribution system. They are a retailer's cooperative which distributes parts and equipment to both corporately and independently owned auto parts stores. Today, NAPA oversees 6,000 auto parts stores, 69 distribution centers, 13,000 affiliated NAPA auto care repair facilities and over 320,000 parts in inventory every day. With the advent of 21st century sophistication, the automotive industry and its affiliates have become increasingly complex, their product line expanding to include more than the basic nuts and bolts. The GPS Tracking Key, though unimpressive in size and appearance, is destined to become a standard feature in vehicles nationwide, as more and more consumers become dependent upon its wide range of capabilities.

"The Tracking Key has been proven in the GPS tracking industry to be one of the best devices in the world for passive GPS tracking. It is a very powerful, affordable and extremely easy to use device," said Rob Wagner, CEO of LandAirSea Systems, Inc.

About LandAirSea:

Currently headquartered in Cary, Illinois, LandAirSea plays host to the world's most powerfully engineered GPS tracking equipment. With several varieties of GPS tracking systems in operation across the globe, LandAirSea has become an industry leading provider of effective, affordable tracking solutions for thousands of civilians as well as a multitude of government and law enforcement agencies. For more information, please visit http://www.landairsea.com.

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Simply wait for the perp to stop somewhere or try to ditch the vehicle and swoop in and bust the guy. You may want to keep the helicopter on the perp, just in case he or she is rocking one of these. [StarChase via OhGizmo!]

The purpose of this device is to obviously disable any kind of GPS tracking devices that would be hidden somewhere in your vehicle, but we can think of better purposes. This device would provide barrels of fun messing with confused drivers who rely on GPS navigation systems. Surely there has to be a way to boost the range of this device, although we're not too sure the FCC would approve. The Anti GPS Tracker is available for $300. [Coolest-Gadgets]

RFID ID identification is the future, regardless of what concerns are being expressed about privacy. This unified system will make it easier than ever to deal with the agonies that accompany uptight ID security. Needing to show the ID at the supermarket when paying with a credit card, or getting into bars, or any other inconvenience will be less of a hassle now that a machine will know you are you without having to pull out the card and give it to the hands of a scummy bouncer or clerk.

Even when dealing with authorities the RFID-embedded IDs will help. It will help keep people off the roads that shouldn't be there. And during stops it will increase efficiency with the ID information being automatically beamed to the officer, rather than requiring the officer to scribble down your information and harass you about your current address for 15 minutes.

I welcome the widening net of social control and our new RFID overlords. It could be because I am lazy, or it could be more for potentially greater safety and security on the roads. How long until I can get an RFID chip implanted in my skin? That's the real question, and maybe it's just because I have nothing to hide and I realize that transparency of information transfer is the lubricant of efficiency. [Engadget]