BarrJess
abadideaMicrosoft Teams wants permission to DIAL EMERGENCY SERVICES? I hate customer meetings too but that is not a healthy coping mechanism
(people are telling me that this is because Teams can integrate with voip, and being able to connect you to the right emergency service becomes a legal requirement if that’s enabled. I personally would never dial a phone number again if I could, let alone through Teams)
David Cohen@0xabad1dea In order to report your house fire, you’ll need to sign in with your Microsoft Account 😛
Jason Petersen (he)@0xabad1dea this is android, right?
@jason no (as hinted in the alt text)
Chris Siebenmann@0xabad1dea They moved all our office VOIP phones to Teams a year or so ago and now I'm wondering why I was never asked this myself. Perhaps they already had all the VOIP phone locations on file.
(Your VOIP phone's call history shows up in Teams and I think so does voicemail. You can probably tell how often I use my office phone...)
@cks yes I believe that voip desk phones have to be programmed with a location for this reason. This popup is on a tablet with an operating system that enforces asking permission to use the current-location API that taps into gps; presumably voip desk phones don’t have that.
DamonHD@cks @0xabad1dea I think that I haven't used 'an office phone' by some reasonable definition for >15Y!
Irenes (many)@0xabad1dea oh wow we would not give it that. it could have just about any sort of ML-based dialing thing in there. the consequences of a false positive on that would be serious.
Androcat@0xabad1dea In new functionality, a "swat" button will be added that immediately alerts police to a potential hostage situation at the location of the focused speaker.
Some have criticized that the flyswatter icon on the button isn't self-explanatory.
A Microsoft spokesperson believes this new feature will make meetings a lot more dynamic.
/satire #microfiction
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@androcat @0xabad1dea Label the button "7500". Then any pilot, at least, will know what it means.
babble encatIt means hijacking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_(aeronautics)#Emergency_codes
halcy 
@0xabad1dea pretty sure that's just straight up a legal requirement in a bunch of jurisdictions, if a thing can make regular telephone calls, it must be able to make emergency calls, and these need to be routed to the correct call center
twilio (the phone API service) also made me give an address for emergency calls when I used it for the dial a toot mastodon client
(idk about combining that with "oh also we'll use location for this other thing", but :shrug:)
Keith Wansbrough@halcy @0xabad1dea This is true and will be the real explanation (i.e., if you dial an emergency number this will ensure it is correctly routed and has the right headers). But the other explanations are more fun.
Ewen McNeill@0xabad1dea I suspect that’s a collision of “reasonable” expectations.
Organisations are (entirely) replacing their phone service with Microsoft Teams. A bunch of countries have laws requiring “phone like” services to be capable of making emergency calls. Many of those countries require emergency calls via a method without a fixed location (ie not landline) to provide timely location information with the emergency call.
Which mixes poorly with “apps please don’t spy on me” :-/
Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️🌈@0xabad1dea Reminds me of the time the Teams app triggered an Android bug that broke emergency calls back in 2021: https://www.androidpolice.com/microsoft-teams-911-break-emergency-calls-android-explained/
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@AlesandroOrtiz @0xabad1dea Makes me wonder if Google got any fines over shit like this, even if well personally I just won't rely on smartphones for telephony anymore, it's just too much of an afterthought.
🐈⬛David Sommerseth@0xabad1dea And I who thought meetings on Teams was to enable you to have a meeting regardless of your location .......
Simon ZerafaI would say that's not a good idea.
It might be rat on us to the cops, which wouldn't end well 🤔🤷♂️
MegatronicThronBanksThat grammar is wrong. Hm.
@megatronicthronbanks yes, it’s rather difficult to parse — I think because it’s combining an OS dialogue template with a reason string provided by the application and the resulting combination wasn’t specifically checked.
@0xabad1dea Collishznnn
Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸@0xabad1dea "It's
A trap!"
A trap!"
Ölbaum@0xabad1dea That’s because in case it detects that you’re using Teams willingly, it automatically calls for someone to come and check your fever.
kouhai, of the health issues@0xabad1dea MS product management looking at their competitors’ ability to call the fbi
Sonikku@0xabad1dea
My answer to that one is NO
My answer to that one is NO
Juli Jane@0xabad1dea Maybe when it hears a participant talk too much BS it suspects that they have a stroke and calls an ambulance?
LAUREN
Kevin Karhan 
@0xabad1dea nah it's just so they can scape your address book and emergency contact details...
@kkarhan ? that’s a completely separate OS permission
@0xabad1dea yeah. But to track you anyway.