If I didn’t bring my phone with me to begin with, which I often don’t, I would be in the same situation. I’m not saying the emergency service is useless to everyone. But the risk of it being off causing my death is so insignificantly small, the risk of someone tapping into my location far outweights it for me. We didn’t have phones when I grew up, and it should be OK not to rely on it for everything today as well. If that kills me (which it won’t), that is on me.

I could argue then that everyone should carry a first aid kit with them everywhere they go, or a rape whistle, then since it would save at least someone somewhere, but that’s a high burden to prevent something of low risk.

More importantly, why can’t it check the location when I actually make the emergency call, rather than every 10 minutes? It does not need my daily routine to locate me.

Now that I think about it, location is disabled globally on my phone by default anyway, and has always been. I turn it on when I have to, and immediately turn it back off when I don’t need it anymore.