work forces and technologies that allow users to relocate without the intervention of an administrator place significant responsibilities on the mlts owner or operator. mlts legislation on august 1, 2019, the fcc adopted a report and order to address calls to 911 made from multi-line telephone systems (mlts) that commonly serve hotels and office buildings, pursuant to kari’s law. the report and order also addressed sending dispatchable location information with 911 calls, and consolidating the fcc’s 911 rules. under the provisions outlined in kari's law, new and upgraded mlts systems after february 17, 2020 must: enable the public to dial 911 from mlts directly, without having to dial additional numbers, such as a “9,” to reach an outside line. require mlts to send a notification to a location where someone is likely to hear or see it when a 911 call has been made. in addition to kari's law, §506 of the ray baum's act adds the requirement that by january 6, 2021, wired mlts devices must: establish dispatchable location information requirements for 911 calls from mlts, fixed telephone services, interconnected voice over internet protocol (voip) services, mobile text, and internet-based telecommunications relay services (trs). wireless devices have an additional year to be made compliant. dispatchable location is defined as: the street address of the calling party information such as room number, floor number, or similar information necessary to adequately identify the location of the calling party. in a recent podcast recorded at the nena 911 goes to washington event in washington, dc, david furth, the deputy director of public safety and homeland security provided a recap of the legislative actions. the legislation does over rule any current state legislation, that currently exists in numerous us government jurisdictions, unless the federal requirements are more restrictive. the burden still remains upon the enterprise organization to provide compliance when an emergency call originates from within a mlts system, however the new language also adds responsibility to manufacturers, importers, distributors, and installers as well s the person who owns, operates. rents, buys or leases the system. the member driven volunteer organization that represents the people who staff the psaps, the national emergency number association (nena.org), has done significant work advocating on the subject of mlts e911. hank hunt, kari hunt's father has championed the legislation, named after his later daughter, which started as a promise to his granddaughter who knew to dial 9-1-1 from the hotel room phone, but had no idea the phone needed a 9 to dial an outside line. hank is carrying on the legacy of kari and is a popular speaker at public safety and telecom shows and events. his actions are funded through the kari hunt foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. it is an important contemporary issue of growing concern as enterprise style organizations employ new technologies to create vast private networks that interconnect with the pstn in ways that do not map to the logic used to locate callers in the public enhanced 911 system. the risks to people who initiate a 911 call from an mlts who are not physically located within the jurisdiction of the agency to which the 911 call is routed and the increasing burdens of misdirected 911 calls upon those agencies is escalating. the fcc report and order outlines the actions taken: address signage standards in addition to upgrading communications systems, some counties and communities in the united states have established ordinances (e.g. irc section r319.1) requiring property owners to standardize the display of house numbers on buildings and along streets and roadways, to allow emergency personnel to more easily identify a given address day or night, even in poor weather. these are normally composed of reflective characters, at least 3 to 6 inches high, on a contrasting reflective background. it is necessary for the address number to be affixed to the building or to a separate structure such as a post, wall, fence, or mailbox, provided that such separate structure is located in front of the building and on the building's side of the street. compliant signage systems are often advertised as being "e911 compliant". privacy concerns the fbi cast cellular analysis & geo-location field resource guide reveals that wireless carriers in the u.s. routinely activate e911 functionality on their customers' mobile phones for the purposes of tracking their locations without their permission, as of march 2019. telecommunications companies then provide this location data to various government agencies that request it, making it clear that use of e911 functionality is not limited to emergencies and that the technology is often implemented in such a way that tracking can be remotely activated without the user's knowledge or consent. cultural references john mcafee twitter @officialmcafee the "presidential alerts": they are capable of accessing the e911 chip in your phones - giving them full access to your location, microphone, camera and every function of your phone. this not a rant, this is from me, still one of the leading cybersecurity experts. wake up people! 3 october 2018 after a national test of wireless emergency alerts (live since 2012) on 3 october 2018, a number of rumours and false statements spread on social media. among them a tweet by john mcafee that went viral, in which mcafee claimed that the "predentials alert" involved the e911 system, and that smartphones have a "e911 chip" capable of giving the government access to the phone's location and microphone. the electronic frontier foundation reported that there is "no such thing as an e911 chip". fact-checking website snopes stated that "wea messages are not to e911 functions".