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Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?


From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 12:27:18 -0800

On 3/9/19 12:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Automatically geo-locating indoor smart speakers and smart TVs is more difficult, but if advertisers can get geolocation information from AT&T, Amazon, Apple, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc; why can't emergency alerts?


There's no technical reason emergency alerts can't be geo located. But advertisers pay for it; emergency alerts aren't revenue generating.


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