A matter of life and death
Apart from incidents involving crime, national safety and security, we only intervene to help locate a person when it is a matter of emergency - a matter of life or death.
We have helped emergency services to trace and rescue people who, for example, have called 999 to report a suicide attempt.
Our services have also been used successfully to check that people were safely away from the areas affected by the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and the Asian earthquake in 2005, and to inform people of emergency flights and passages to safety.
For more information visit the following pages in our extensive online resource
Issues in brief
O2 plc
- Safety first
- What are the issues?
- Keeping a close watch
- A policy of child protection
- Putting a ring around bullies
- Assisting emergency response on July 7
- What are location-based services?
- A matter of life and death
- Pictures and the law
- Collective action on spam
- When should we intercept?
- Privacy at what price?
- Data retention and protection
- A question of balance
