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The police emergency call (110) is stuck to a police car.
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Federal Absurdistan?
If you call 110 in an emergency, you sometimes cannot be located.
Technically this would be possible without any problems, but legally there are problems - and they lie in Baden-Württemberg.
Stuttgart - Because of legal hurdles in Baden-Württemberg, the police cannot quickly trace emergency calls to 110 in the southwest and elsewhere in Germany.
The location data from all over Germany flows centrally to Baden-Württemberg, but cannot be accessed and passed on due to the legal situation, as the Ministry of the Interior confirmed.
It is unclear whether the local police law offers a sufficient legal basis for this.
However, we are currently looking for a practical solution with the state data protection officer, said a spokesman.
Technically, location is possible using the “Advanced Mobile Location” (AML) process.
When you dial the emergency call on a smartphone, various sensors such as GPS are switched on and the data is transferred automatically.
The central AML server for all of Germany is located in the Black Forest.
EU law requires the transmission of location data.
However, the state commissioner for data protection criticizes that there is no legal basis for handling the data.
The location of helpless people may only be determined in individual cases.
However, European legislators require the location to be transmitted automatically as soon as you dial 110.
There is therefore a need for a legal basis that makes it clear what can be done with the data.
“This is particularly true in the case of the police, who are not only responsible for helping in emergencies, i.e. warding off danger, but also for investigating if there are indications of crime,” said a spokesman for the state data protection officer.
According to the demand, the location data should only be used to provide assistance.
“This is also with a view to the fact that people should not refrain from calling the emergency number out of fear of automated location transmission.” dpa