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Do you have any concerns over being an emergency contact for anyone? I've considered doing the same as you, but I fear the chance that a I would be contacted in
by ysavir 7y ago
Do you have any concerns over being an emergency contact for anyone? I've considered doing the same as you, but I fear the chance that a I would be contacted in such a scenario and wouldn't even know it.
- Waterluvian 7y agoYou should be consciously aware of who might emergency contact you anyways. Add them to your whitelist. Edit: all good points. Yeah I guess that is a risk. Also reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/J-inCB3POqs https://youtu.be/J-inCB3POqs
- slig 7y agoI believe the parent is taking about an emergency where the hospital calls, not the person.
- moccachino 7y agoThat's not really feasible. You might know for which persons you are the emergency contact but you can't possibly know from which phone you would be contacted in case of an actual emergency.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoYou never know who's going to call from what number. Just yesterday I had a carrier I hired call me from the shipper's landline because the situation was going sideways and there was no cell service.
- astura 7y agoYeah, because when your spouse is getting rolled into emergency surgery after suddenly collapsing you'll definitely know what number is going to call you to inform you, so you'll want to whitelist that one. And when a drunk driver hits her car on a rural road in the middle of the night and her phone is trapped in the wreck, you'll want to make sure you whitelist the phone number of the passerby that stops to help. And when your elderly parents' house is burning down (along with their phones) you'll definitely know all the phone numbers of all possible emergency responders and neighbors, so whitelist all of them too. That's not even considering mundane everyday stuff like delivery people/repair people who got lost or have to reschedule last minute. You might have the main number for the business whitelisted, but those sorts of calls usually come from the phone number of the day's driver. The only people who think "just disable incoming phone calls" is a viable option either have no friends and/or family, very little life experience, or both.
- cheerlessbog 7y agoThere is usually a setting to allow unknown numbers through if they call again within a short amount of time. That may help with the emergency case. Unfortunately the 2FA calls for my corporate login seem to come from different numbers each time..
- jkaplowitz 7y agoI have that setting enabled, though I think it may be Android-only. Do we know if people actually try twice in rapid succession often enough during emergencies, without special training to develop that habit? I don't know the data on this, but I'd like to.
- brewdad 7y agoI would think the more likely scenario in this case would be to work through the list of emergency contact numbers (ie. cell phone, work phone, home phone) in succession rather than calling the same number twice.
- fjsolwmv 7y agoThat's a useless arms race because spammers can easily call twice.
- cheerlessbog 7y agoYou would think, but so far they don't seem to have figured that out.
- malka 7y agoIf people want to contact me, they can leave a message on my voicemail. The only people who think "just disable incoming phone calls" is not a viable option either have no decent friends and/or family, very little life experience, or both.
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- criddell 7y agoI'm pretty sure if it was an emergency, they would leave a message. For me, that's good enough. Once the phone companies fix caller authentication, I'll probably be comfortable letting my guard down a bit. Correct caller ID would make my phone far more valuable and I'm always surprised that the big telecom companies don't compete on voice services more.