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I believe you are assuming that this feature would let the government request your geolocation on demand, but I don't think this is what they are actually sugge
by pera 8y ago
I believe you are assuming that this feature would let the government request your geolocation on demand, but I don't think this is what they are actually suggesting: the idea is to make your phone automatically send your current coordinate after you make a call to 911.
- lisper 8y agoThat's the feature described in the original article. But the comment I was responding to advocates expanding that capability without any specified limits (except, perhaps, that it be limited to "emergency" situations, but "emergency" is a very malleable word).
- mikeash 8y agoI'm pretty sure they were describing a system where that additional information would be sent when calling 911, not that it could be activated remotely on command.