CAN YOU FIND ME NOW? LOCATING DEVICES CATCHING ON.(MAIN)

Byline: AMY HARMON New York Times

Driven by worries about safety, the need for accountability, and perhaps a certain ``I-Spy'' impulse, families and employers are adopting surveillance technology once used mostly to track soldiers and prisoners. New electronic services with names like uLocate and Wherify Wireless make physical location harder to mask.

Privacy advocates say the lack of legal clarity about who can gain access to location information poses a serious risk. And some users say the technology threatens an everyday autonomy that is largely taken for granted. The devices, they say, promote the scrutiny of small decisions -- where to have lunch, when …