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Ms-J 5 hours ago

More abuse done to us. We never agreed for our GPS coordinates to tag along with calls for some assholes to see exactly where we are.

It is tiring. I am doing something about it by making technical contributions. If you are able to do the same, please do.

Spivak 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean we kinda did when we decided that emergency services calls would be special and give first responders the ability to find you. Wireless carriers are required to provide GPS quality (actually better than GPS) location data to EMS and this is how they built it.

The only way to actually do this was develop a way to ask the phone because the tower isn't accurate enough. In the US it could have been more privacy preserving by being push but I imagine carriers don't want to maintain and update a list of current emergency numbers. "Sorry person in a car crash, we can't find you because cellular modem firmware is out of date and your emergency number isn't on list" is a PR disaster waiting to happen. Easier to coordinate with police and fire and let them do the asking.