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by wolvoleo 140 days ago
Tescos in the EU are required to track location for emergency call purposes and provide it to the government in such occasions. That means they need the ability to collect it all the time.
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The parent comment specifically mentioned the _collected_ data, not the ability/authorisation to collect it.

They're raising the possibility of asking _why_ the data was collected if there was no emergency?

Of course if the telco doesn't store the rewuests/responses, there will be no records to show.

It needs to be collected to serve the devices properly. Today's RF is very targeted with multi stream etc.