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If the text you quoted is accurate, the data is only accessible to emergency calling centers, so no, unless they are lying neither company can see your location
by ForrestN 8y ago
If the text you quoted is accurate, the data is only accessible to emergency calling centers, so no, unless they are lying neither company can see your location. Perhaps it’s encrypted, a bit like sending an iMessage to the 9/11 dispatcher, or some other means of anonymization is used.
- josefresco 8y agothe data is only accessible to emergency calling centers This same argument is use to justify why we shouldn't allow encryption back doors. The reasons include: access will leak, law enforcement cannot be trusted. I don't see anything in this announcement that addresses those concerns.
- jonknee 8y agoThe location is also only sent during the 911 call, so if you don't dial 911 your location isn't in the database and the security of the database doesn't matter, your location is "safe". https://info.rapidsos.com/blog/bringing-apple-device-location-to-911 https://info.rapidsos.com/blog/bringing-apple-device-locatio... > When this feature is made available later this year in an iOS software update, Apple phones will send fast and accurate device location to the NG911 Clearinghouse when a user dials 9-1-1.
- josefresco 8y agoMy point was that despite policy/law, the arguments against back doors for encryption rely on the assumption that "the system" and those that control it cannot be trusted. So while it's great that Apple and others are telling us that the location is only shared when calling 911, critics of encryption backdoor would claim this "promise" is just that ... a promise. If good guys can access this data, that means bad guys can too (just like encryption backdoors!)