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Communications Daily: 988 Georouting Order Seen Protecting Privacy, With Caveats
October 7, 2024
The order, said Electronic Privacy Information Center lawyer Chris Frascella, does a decent job of privacy protection on georouting, making explicit the requirement for aggregating location data. More concerning, he said, is that the FCC didn’t explicitly prohibit geolocation. That leaves the door open for the agency to change direction later on requiring geolocation, in which the call carries far more granular, specific data about the caller’s exact location. Geolocation is implicitly prohibited, since the data for now can’t be specific to the point of identifying a cell site or base station carrying the call, “but that’s not the same thing as the agency tying its own hands” with an explicit geolocation prohibition, he said.
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