full stop Not quite. This trivially becomes a back door for malware that can initiate phone calls, by circumventing ordinary OS security and control. Maybe t

full stop Not quite. This trivially becomes a back door for malware that can initiate phone calls, by circumventing ordinary OS security and control. Maybe there's a reason to intercept location data (e.g. cheating spouse), via a completed call that transmits a silent audio channel. So the software lands on the device, initiates a 911 call just to obtain the location of the device and send it to a botnet, and immediately hangs up. Mission Accomplished: spouse is confirmed to be cheating. At the expense of an extra ring to 911. This example is facetious. There are other reasons to snoop on a single individual's location data. Now the calls are being triggered by remote software control, with your phone being hijacked as a proxy device, and who is left to blame?