The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking requiring the collection of more accurate location data, Ars Technica reports. The “Z-axis” data, which carriers can gather via the barometric pressure sensors in a customer’s phone, would identify where a person is situated in a multi-story building in the event of a 911 call. The proposal, created by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, does not reference the word “privacy," nor does it reveal the privacy rules that would apply to phone carriers when they collect such data from customers’ phones.
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