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I would be super happy if I lost all of my data without my consent. If they backed it up on their servers beforehand, I would be angry they violated my privacy without my acknowledgement. If they disable my phone during an emergency, I'd be outright pissed off.

This is a lose-lose situation all around.

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Shouldn't whatever plans you have to mitigate data loss in case your phone gets destroyed in an accident be adaptable to deal with this situation?

Because every consumer of commodity smartphones does that, don't they?

Even though it is not explicitly suggested by the article I would imagine that the phone maintains its emergency contact features as well as any data in storage to transfer later. The idea is to discourage someone from using their phone as actively as possible until they send it in for the swap.

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