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> ... OR disregard the report as a non-emergency. Just fine the person for negligent abuse of the system. The problem will get solved quickly enough if your ba
by megous 3y ago
> ... OR disregard the report as a non-emergency.
Just fine the person for negligent abuse of the system. The problem will get solved quickly enough if your badly configured phone calls 911 and you're not communicative, so they have to send an ambulance or whatever.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoThe "person" is Apple. This is an automated dialing based on various parameters. I don't see a good outcome of fining this. Either the person turns off the feature and now there's a bunch of situations where it could have saved lives lost, or you charge Apple and they turn off the feature, effectively doing the same. Or worse, because as of now every smartphone has requirements to dial emergency services, regardless of sim cards or passwords or whatnot. If it's not completely dead it can contact 911.
- megous 3y agoThe person is the person buying apple phones and not turning off the feature when not needed in a situation where it's likely to produce a false positive. People can be expected to behave responsibly.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoIt's a brand new feature so most may not even know it exists. These things are basically pocket computer these days, you can't expect a user to understand every available feature on them