The only mobiles which have an ICE contact (as mine does now) will be owned
by people who have chosen to enter it. It's a matter of balancing the risk.
The vast majority of people will never need such a thing. In the small
number of cases where it's an issue, you have to decide whether you would
prefer the risk of a false report (your family being told you're dead
because your mobile is found at the scene of a disaster), or the risk that
you are unidentifiable, dead or alive, and no-one can contact your family to
let them know what state you're in. None of us would choose to be in either
situation - all of us have a choice about whether to put an ICE contact in
their phone.
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> From: Brenda
> Scourfield[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Brenda Scourfield
> Sent: 15 July 2005 14:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [data-protection] Next of Kin
>
> What happens if your phone is lost in the crush/panic/whatever and you are
>
> assumed dead/injured just because your phone is there ? You could have
> lent it to a friend/had it stolen, and gone off to the other side of town
> so missing the bomb/crash/disaster. How would you then feel about your
> next of kin having a phone call saying you were dead ?
>
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