[LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

[Tom Worthington]

On 12/09/15 14:09, Roger Clarke wrote:
> A young woman was missing for 6 days just outside Canberra. ...  I'm
> wondering how come it took 5 extra days to get "more precise
> information on where her phone last contacted a tower". ...

Yes, fortunately there was no fatality, but as a result there will not 
be a judicial inquiry into the incident.

The Federal Government has obtained increased powers to carry out 
surveillance of citizens in cases of terrorism, but it takes five days 
to triangulate the signals from cell towers to find someone in danger?


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