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Calling emergency from a private phone (lemmy.world)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by David2003@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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You're hiking in the mountains or forest with your phone's GPS location turned off for privacy reasons. Suddenly, you find yourself in a medical emergency in a remote, unfamiliar location. You don't know where you are. You urgently need to call for help, but you're worried that without a precise location, emergency responders won't be able to reach you in time. What do you do then?

Does What3Words app respect user privacy?

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[โ€“] merde@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

iirc, emergency services do not get your location from your telephone's gps, but through towers that it's connected to

even a dumbPhone can be located through it's cell connection

[โ€“] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago

Yep thats how it works. Cell tower triangulation makes gps toggling mostly useless. Well except for blocking apps to location