The one really big negative in all this was pointed out in a new s story the other day: abused women have secret emergency phones that will now start blasting a loud siren and revealing their whereabouts. This is putting them at risk in a number of ways. Up until I read that it hadn’t even occurred to me, and Just had ambivalent feelings about the test. Now, I’m not so sure that the good outweighs the bad here. I suppose no innovation is problem free. But it feels a bit glib to put it like that, even as I do so.
Bit of a Catch-22 isn't it? The solution would be to turn off secret mobile phones, but if an abused woman (or man for that matter) needs to use it in a hurry, they then have the faff of turning it back on.
