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Google is Making it Easier For 911 To Find You in an Emergency (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: When you call 911 from a cellphone, your location is typically sent to the call taker by a wireless carrier. But that information isn't always so accurate. Well Google might have a better way of going about it and it tested its system across a few states in December and January, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the states where the tests took place, Google sent location data from a random selection of 911 callers using Android phones straight to the people taking those calls. The test included 50 call centers that cover around 2.4 million people in Texas, Tennessee and Florida, and early reports of the results suggest the system is promising.
One company involved in the test told the Wall Street Journal that for over 80 percent of the 911 calls where Googl's system was used, the tech giant's location data were more accurate than what wireless carriers provided. The company, RapidSOS, also said that while carrier data location estimates had, on average, a radius of around 522 feet, Google's data gave estimates with radii around 121 feet. Google's data also arrived more quickly than carrier data typically did.
One company involved in the test told the Wall Street Journal that for over 80 percent of the 911 calls where Googl's system was used, the tech giant's location data were more accurate than what wireless carriers provided. The company, RapidSOS, also said that while carrier data location estimates had, on average, a radius of around 522 feet, Google's data gave estimates with radii around 121 feet. Google's data also arrived more quickly than carrier data typically did.
Remember the days when the left were telling us the CIA/FBI/NSA were "Like totally something out of 1984, dude. They're coming for our weed and torrents and pretty soon we'll be living in a hellish dystopia. Edward Snowden is a hero for exposing their unconstitutional spying, and the Russians were great for giving him sanctuary out of the kindness of their hearts and in now way because they want his info. The 1980s are calling and they want their foreign policy back from Mitt Romney because everyone knows that Putin is our friend now. How dare you defend the CIA/NSA etc? Haven't you heard about COINTELPRO you bootlicker?".
It must have been so long ago, because now it's all changed. The FBI, CIA and NSA are all heroic for protecting us from Russian shills, you should check under the bed for Russians each night and Putin is Public Enemy Number 1 and anyone who questions any of that is clearly a Putin Shill, just like Trump.
Though, oddly enough according to the left Snowden is still heroic whistleblower, and totally not a Russian agent. And Assange has clearly been framed by the CIA and isn't just a fugitive rapist and nutcase. And Mitt Romney is clearly still wrong about Russia being a strategic threat, even though he actually agrees with the left.
And Trump is a Russian Shill even though US forces under his command have actually killed Russians on a battlefield in Syria
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