National emergency app now available in Belgium (exclusively to Google and Apple patrons who run closed-source software)
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There is always someone on standby to help you in need
https://web.archive.org/web/20231002102252/https://112.be/en
There is always someone on standby to help you in need
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/Brussels/t/556987
Belgium has adopted an “official” app so that anyone can signal for help, so long as they belong to this exclusive group:
- Must have a smartphone (presumably recent).
- Must be a trusting patron of #Google or #Apple. Consequently,
- must needlessly buy a GSM subscription and trust surveillance advertisers with the mobile phone number (which in Belgium must be registered to an ID) — even though the app can make emergency contact without phone service… thus imposing a needless cost on users and also causing a #GDPR minimisation breach.
- Must install and execute proprietary closed-source software. Consequently,
- must trust closed-source software (by #Nextel or #Telenet?)
- must be ethically aligned/okay with running #nonfreesoftware (which does not respect your freedom)
- Must be willing to leave Tor to access the access-restricted 112.be website.