And that’s why the Aphrodite Project has developed platform shoes stuffed with technology that it says can protect prostitutes from all kinds of danger.
On the one hand, the shoes have a built-in GPS receiver and emergency button “that relays both the prostitute’s location and a silent alarm signal to public emergency services.”
The shoes will also transmit their location using APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) technology developed by the U.S. Naval Academy Satellite Lab in the 1970s, the project’s site said. And in this implementation, the technology can be used to alert sex workers’ rights groups if a prostitute is arrested.
“Using APRS brings sex workers on par with other public workers,” the site said, “whose lives are valued highly because they work in dangerous professions that serve the needs of the community.”
I can only assume that the purpose of putting a GPS chip in a hooker’s shoes is to make them easier for Big Brother to find them when needed?
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