Apple refuses to enable iPhone emergency settings that could save countless lives

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

OK why Apple are you refusing? Dfarber


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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 10, 2017 at 1:27:27 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Apple refuses to enable iPhone emergency settings that could save countless lives
>
>
> Apple refuses to enable iPhone emergency settings that could save countless lives
>
> https://thenextweb.com/apple/2017/08/10/apple-refuses-enable-iphone-settings-save-countless-lives/#.tnw_O0GihW8u
>
>      Despite being relatively easy, Apple keeps ignoring requests
>    to enable a feature called Advanced Mobile Location (AML) in
>    iOS. Enabling AML would give emergency services extremely
>    accurate locations of emergency calls made from iPhones,
>    dramatically decreasing response time.  As TNW covered before,
>    Google's successful implementation of AML for Android is already
>    saving lives. But where Android users have become safer,
>    iPhone owners have been left behind.



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