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Voip numbers that have emergency dialing access should be required to get that information. In fact, they are, so you'll note the article mentions a loophole of
by ikeboy 11y ago
Voip numbers that have emergency dialing access should be required to get that information. In fact, they are, so you'll note the article mentions a loophole of calling a non emergency number, then asking to be transferred to emergency services.
I don't know how harmful closing that loophole would be for legitimate calls. Can police track how many legit calls were transferred from non-emergency calls, and came from numbers without emergency calling capabilities? Knowing whether that number is negligible or not is important.
- pyre 11y ago> you'll note the article mentions a loophole of calling a non emergency number, then asking to be transferred to emergency services. The "loophole" is to get to the emergency services for the area they are targeting. You can't dial 911 in British Columbia and get emergency services in Georgia.
- ikeboy 11y agoYup. It's not clear from there whether they'd be able to call emergency services somewhere else, but it's implied not (they mention getting a local number to call from). Even if they could, you could still check whether their phone can call your emergency services directly.
- therein 11y agoYes but can't the caller ID be spoofed? At that point, you'll be relying on a system to give you a "sugar score" for a call since you are providing emergency services. But I do agree that a low sugar score combined with a particular type of request should raise some flags.