GadgetTrak On MSNBC Red Tape Chronicles
Friday, October 19, 2007
Bob Sullivan interviewed GadgetTrak founder Ken Westin in an article regarding the the Urban Institute’s recent iCrime story.
GadgetTrak, a small Portland company, has a service that can be installed on almost any USB-enabled device which will make a stolen gadget “phone home” as soon as it is connected to a computer with Internet access. Registered devices, when told to do so, will send the user’s IP address, computer name and other identifying information to GadgetTrak, which then provides the data to the victim so it can be shared with police. The service costs about $12.95 per year.
Owner Ken Westin said he’s recovered four iPods since the service launched earlier this year. In three of the four cases, the music player was stolen from a student by a student.
It is good to see Bob focus on the larger problem of gadget theft and not just iPods.
