Summer beckons, with its eternal promise of freedom.

Unless you are Harry Wilder.

Harry is a 19-year-old British student who plans to travel across Australia, Thailand and South Africa this season … with a GPS tracking device called the "Traakit" in his pocket. The Traakit will let his mom pinpoint his location to within 15 feet and see him as a dolt, excuse me, dot on a map. For geeks, let me explain that the system seems to use coordinates from four satellite reading ...

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