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Google adds ability to send your location when you call emergency services

July 26, 2016

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Google Play Services often has some of the best updates for Android users, because even if the features added aren’t necessarily the best, the updates get pushed out to 99% of the Google Android world quickly and quietly in the background. The latest update could make it easier for emergency services to find you when you call.

Google said Android will automatically be able to send your location data, based on Wi-Fi, GPS, and cell tower information, to emergency services when you call. Google also confirmed that this location data would never be seen by Google or anyone else.

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