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Flooding emergency services with fake incidents can easily start killing people due to help being called just because some idiot manager thought 'this is good marketing so lets get this done quickly' and pushed half-baked solution. I ain't talking about theory, read this thread about feature disabled and still calling 911, imagine if you had phone in trunk of the car.

Glad it doesn't seem to be enabled in Switzerland, my wife is a doctor, worked on emergency and also as a doctor with ambulances so has perspective from other side. This is outright criminal behavior from Apple, easily to get sued for billions in each bigger market (not saying they would automatically lose, they can play well meaning idiot at the courts but PR effect is nevertheless properly bad).




Right, but just to be clear, that is the sort of “cost of false positive” that I was talking about considering.




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