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Amber alerts are a well-defined category of messages you can receive. The regulation about what constitutes a legitimate case for an emergency broadcast are ver
by isodev 4y ago
Amber alerts are a well-defined category of messages you can receive. The regulation about what constitutes a legitimate case for an emergency broadcast are very strict and subject to public review, so pretty hard to misuse for unrelated purposes.
- xnyanta 4y agoYet, no one is forcing governments to use the system as-designed. In Quebec, on my phone, I can disable quite a few types of cell broadcast alerts like AMBER alerts, Test alerts, etc. The only hidden setting is the one for presidential alerts. Well guess what? The Quebec government sends every type of alert, even the regular test ones, with the presidential alert severity which makes all of these settings useless and does nothing but irritate the population with spammy messages. Recently, they sent out an AMBER alert that was supposed to be localized in some area and, instead, sent it everywhere in Quebec except for the affected area. This is exactly why people have the right to remain skeptical about alert systems like this one.