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Re:India orders ‘panic button’ for mobile phones in bid to p... by gordon_freeman on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:42PM (#11576368)
It would be interesting to see how companies like Apple will comply with this request. AFAIK, the feature would be embedded in hardware by pressing power button 3 times it would trigger the GPS and connect to law enforcement. If India can convince all OEMs to implement this feature and implements infrastructure around it nationwide then I agree it has the possibility to reduce rape incidents tremendously.
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Re:India orders ‘panic button’ for mobile phones in bid to p... by iotakodali on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:49PM (#11576403)
I don't know where you get your stats from, but I have a Indian city full of panic buttons and nothing happens when you press them. The possibility of it reducing rape, nobody knows for sure. India's emergency response isn't great and won't be in the near future. Have you even considered the number of false positives you would get with the population we have in our country
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Re:India orders ‘panic button’ for mobile phones in bid to p... by abhi3 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:55PM (#11576437)
Is is specified anywhere that it has to be a hardware button or are people just assuming so?
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