{"id":25132,"date":"2016-04-28T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/india-to-require-panic-buttons-on-phones"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:10:12","slug":"india-to-require-panic-buttons-on-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/india-to-require-panic-buttons-on-phones","title":{"rendered":"India to require panic buttons on phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-to-require-panic-buttons-on-phones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New requirement if you\u2019re a Smartphone device provider and trying to sell in India.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Starting next year, all mobile phones sold across India must include a panic button, local news outlets are reporting. In addition, by 2018, all cell phones need to come with a built-in GPS chip, so a person in trouble can be more easily found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology is solely meant to make human life better and what better than using it for the security of women,\u201d communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/hardware\/mobile-phones-to-come-with-panic-button-from-2017\/articleshow\/51987390.cms\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a statement, according to <em>The Economic Times<\/em>. \u201cI have taken a decision that from January 1, 2017, no cell phone can be sold without a provision for panic button and from January 1, 2018, mobile sets should have in-built GPS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Times<\/em>, those with feature phones can press keys 5 and 9 to alert local law enforcement to an emergency under the new policy. On smartphones, vendors will be required to display an \u201cemergency\u201d button. Smartphone makers can also build in a feature that alerts law enforcement once the on\/off button is pressed three times in succession.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2016\/04\/28\/india-to-require-panic-buttons-on-phones.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2016\/04\/28\/india-to-require-pani...hones.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New requirement if you\u2019re a Smartphone device provider and trying to sell in India. Starting next year, all mobile phones sold across India must include a panic button, local news outlets are reporting. In addition, by 2018, all cell phones need to come with a built-in GPS chip, so a person in trouble can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,1493,1512,31,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-law-enforcement","category-mobile-phones","category-policy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50677,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions\/50677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}