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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12160

15 December 2018
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 30
NEWS BRIEFS / Space
Commission improves geolocation of people phoning emergency numbers

14/12/2018 (Agence Europe)On Friday 14 December, the European Commission adopted a series of measures to improve geolocation of people in distress. According to the new rules, all smartphones sold in the EU in the future will have to send the precise geolocation of the person dialling an emergency number using Galileo, the European Space Programme geolocation satellite, when the person is outdoors, and via WiFi when they are indoors. Currently, average geolocation accuracy varies from...

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