Every once in a while, I get chills down my spine when I see yet another invasion of our already fragile liberties with a satellite-tracked black box that somebody’s trying to pass off as innocent. “It’s for keeping your car from getting stolen, it’s for making sure your kids don’t go where they’re not to, nobody would ever use it for _________.”

A company called GoPass has come out with a new device called the AVL-900. It definitely ups the ante by not only allowing the installer to track the vehicle’s every turn via GPS / GPRS, but it also has an integrated microphone to let whoever’s curious listen in. This portable tracking system packs a SiRF Star III GPS receiver, supports quad-band GSM communications, and can report positions on a timed interval or send an alert to your cellphone if the vehicle is moved while you’re away.

As if seeing a moving dot wasn’t close enough to being in the backseat, you can simply text the device or ring it up to turn the microphone on and listen in on what’s going on inside. The AVL-900 will even let you monitor the movements from your smartphone (if you’re in Europe, Asia or with the Government in the US). Thankfully, this box isn’t commercially available yet, but it will be within 3 months.

If that doesn’t creep you out…what does?