Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[Clayton Zekelman <clayton () MNSi Net>]

Absolutely, we need public emergency alerting.  What we don't need is 
every alert to go out mandatory highest level sound the klaxon, can't 
be blocked, even when it's an "all clear" cancelling a previous 
alert, and is being sent in the middle of the night.

That's the system that has been foisted upon us here.   I'm all for 
emergency alerting, but please make sure it's a real emergency.

At least in the US version, they target the region affected, and code 
it with the appropriate alert level instead of sending alerts to 
people 1400 km away.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/14/first-emergency-alert-sets-off-phones-ontario-wide-following-thunder-bay-amber-alert.html



At 07:43 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Canada made a lot of improvements with its alert implementation.  It 
> got to see all the things the U.S. did wrong. Unfortuantely, Canada 
> also copied some wrong lessons from the the U.S. version.
>
> South Korea probably has the most ludicrous emergency alerts in the world.
>
> While improvements are needed, the various alert systems have saved 
> people's lives.
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
> > Just wait until your connected home speakers, smart smoke detector, smart
> > refrigerator, smart tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite receiver,
> > cable box, home security panel and your Fitbit all go off warning you of the
> > cancellation of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good folks at
> > AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that everything needs to go out at highest
> > precedence, because, well, think of the children!

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