Cell Phones and Privacy

Prepaid cellphones are a rare commodity to come by these days, but people still use them because it’s a cheaper solution compared to having a monthly plan with a phone carrier. The ethical people find these phones beneficial for many personal reasons such as being cheap, no long term contracts, and they may rarely use a cell phone, so having prepaid minutes would be the more logistic way economically. Even though today’s society is filled with cellular devices and the majority of these cellular users have a plan, I still believe that prepaid cellphones shouldn’t be banned. Criminals are always going to be around in the world no matter what, but to ban something that some criminals take advantage of is unconstitutional. If some people in a class of 200 play games on their laptops, but the rest of the class are using their laptops for valuable reasons like taking notes, would you ban laptops in class due to a few immoral users? Criminals will always be taking advantage of the technology out there and from my understanding their more criminals using computers then prepaid cellphones. Now I do feel like the government should put some control in law for these types of cell phones like requiring users to register their phone just like it’s required for a buyer to register a gun. It’s a simple yet efficient way to possibly track criminals using these devices and criminals will discontinue using these devices for illegal use. Just like on any technological device, if some suspicious activity is happening with the user’s device, then the government or authority administrations have the right to track the phone in order to find out what’s going on. This is the most ethical reason to go about prepaid cellphones instead of completely banning them.