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Can hearing aids be found remotely by an audiologist?

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Given the current capabilities of an audiologist making programming changes remotely, is it possible for an audiologist to initiate a connection to a patients’ hearing aids remotely to find out where they are?

Was just listening to a podcast of a missing person who wears hearing aids. I’m wondering if an audiologist would have software to remotely locate the hearing aids similar to Apple’s Find my iPhone.

I would think there would be privacy concerns that might be problematic as in the case of missing young persons especially when authorities have asked a cell phone provider to ping the missing teens cell phone and the provider refused to do so without court order. But times and laws change so can’t say with any certainty.

No, there’s no option to do that.

All geolocation services are provided by your phone. None of that information is shared as it’s deemed private in all cases. Your hearing aids don’t contain/share GPS data.

Could an app provide geolocation reporting, yes, just like google does on your devices. Is it shared? That depends on how Google use it. They do share anonymised data to businesses though.

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